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“For countless years I judged there had been no danger of war or solitary violence, no danger from wild beasts, no wasting disease to require strength of constitution, no need of toil. For such a life, what we should call the weak are as well equipped as the strong, are indeed no longer weak. Better equipped indeed they are, for the strong would be fretted by an energy for which there was no outlet.”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.”
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“...we're allotted a little space on earth and...we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us...When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night...someday it will come in and get us, for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“The televisor is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn’t time to protest, ‘What nonsense!’
...books aren't real...thank God for that! You can shut them, say 'hold on a moment'. You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes truth and is the truth.”
― Fahrenheit 451
...books aren't real...thank God for that! You can shut them, say 'hold on a moment'. You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes truth and is the truth.”
― Fahrenheit 451
“Without the Constitution and the Union, we could have attained the creation and maintenance of a great nation, but even these are not the cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these…the principle of “Liberty to all”...The expression of that principle, in our Declaration of Independence, was most happy, and fortunate. Without this…we could have declared our independence of Great Britain. But without it, we could not...have secured our free government, and consequent prosperity. No oppressed people will fight, and endure, as our fathers did, without the promise of something better than a mere change of masters.
The assertion of that principle…has proved an “apple of gold” to us. The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was made, not to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple, not the apple for the picture.
So let us act, that neither picture or apple shall ever be blurred or bruised or broken.”
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The assertion of that principle…has proved an “apple of gold” to us. The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was made, not to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple, not the apple for the picture.
So let us act, that neither picture or apple shall ever be blurred or bruised or broken.”
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