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Aviators live by hours, not by days.

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T. H. White
Age: 57 †
Born: 1906
Born: May 29
Died: 1964
Died: January 17
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Science Fiction Writer
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Bombay
Terence Hanbury White
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Tim White
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I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn
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But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
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It is good to put your life in other people's hands.
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Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.
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The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.
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If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there
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If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
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The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.
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It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.
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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
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Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble. Why should not God have come to the earth as an earth-worm? There are a great many more worms than men, and they do a great deal more good.
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A lot of brainless unicorns swaggering about and calling themselves educated just because they can push each other off a horse with a bit of a stick! It makes me tired.
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[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.
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All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.
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She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.
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The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.
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Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.
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