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The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

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The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

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The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

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The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

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Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

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Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

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I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.

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I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

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I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

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