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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

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Havelock Ellis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1859
Born: February 2
Died: 1939
Died: July 8
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Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.
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The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.
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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.
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Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
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There is nothing more fragile than civilization.
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One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
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Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
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No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
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Beauty is the child of love.
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
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So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.
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