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What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

— Philip Wylie When Worlds Collide (1933)

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Education is not a function of any church — or even of a city — or a state; it is a function of all mankind.

Generation of Vipers (1942)

The blame for Armageddon lies on man. And the millennium will come only when the average man exhibits a scientific integrity about all he is and does — instead of half of it.

Generation of Vipers (1942)

Our commonest man, emulating his superiors, forges ahead with a brick on the safety valve of his conscience.

Generation of Vipers (1942)

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

Generation of Vipers (1942)

There is no advance without strife.

After Worlds Collide (1934)

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