If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
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The writer speaks not *to* his audience (who wants to listen to lectures?) but *for* them, expressing their thoughts and emotions through the imaginative power of his art.
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The war of mankind against other living things: Man has muliplied to the swarming stage, become a scourge and a pestilence upon the Earth, a threat to all life, including his own. Man the Pest.
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Is this Abbey?
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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