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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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