"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."
-Havelock Ellis
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"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.“
-Havelock Ellis
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