Quote by John Fowles
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to p

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true – John Fowles

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In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. – John Fowles

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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. – John Fowles

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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. – John Fowles

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Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. – Alexander Herzen

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The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair. – Margaret Mead

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The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. – Benjamin Disraeli

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God is creating at every moment of the worlds existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world. – Arthur Peacocke

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There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. – Stephen Hawking

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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. – Baruch Spinoza

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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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