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Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to…
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Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any…
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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware…
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold,…
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot…
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Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes…
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Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but…
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Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and…
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Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience…
— Renata Adler
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The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food,…
— Unknown Author
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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people. This kind…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.
— Ernest Mandel
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Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.
— Amy Dickinson
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
— James A. Baldwin
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At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the…
— Ilona Andrews
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