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War can protect it cannot create.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.
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It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
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God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.
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The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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