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The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.

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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Science Fiction Writer
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Bombay
Terence Hanbury White
T. H. White
Tim White
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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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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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You think education is something to be done when all else fails?
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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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Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.
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Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.
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Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad.
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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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I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
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The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.
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Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
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Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds
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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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Kings can only use their best tools.
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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
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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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If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
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But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
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When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?
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