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Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made…
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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they…
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The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will…
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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when…
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can…
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against…
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and…
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One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in…
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
— William Hazlitt
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A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing…
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Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of…
— Evangelista Torricelli
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For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of…
— Plato
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Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest,…
— Evangelista Torricelli
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There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first,…
— Pope Leo XIII
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Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque…
— George Eliot
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Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are…
— George Will
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I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem…
— Adolf Hitler
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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