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• Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.…
• All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control…
• Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to…
• Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
• To understand is to perceive patterns.
• Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
• Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen…
• But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human…
• Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.
• Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the…
• When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody…
• Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

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