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Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

T. H. White

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T. H. White
Age: 57 †
Born: 1906
Born: May 29
Died: 1964
Died: January 17
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Bombay
Terence Hanbury White
T. H. White
Tim White
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Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.
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If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
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But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
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You think education is something to be done when all else fails?
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Aviators live by hours, not by days.
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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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My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is not yet ripe for you to be a hawk... so you may as well sit down for the moment and learn to be a human being.
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You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover’s soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal you had a duty towards it.
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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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He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching at known words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas.
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Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds
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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
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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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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
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They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get.
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Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.
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I think I ought to have some eddication,said the Wart, I can't think of anything to do.
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It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated.
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The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.
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