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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants when it wants, to produce…
— Unknown Author
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To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered…
— Unknown Author
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Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits,…
— Anthony Giddens
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The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in…
— Bertrand Russell
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To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol…
— Russell Brand
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Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it…
— Alberto Manguel
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Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows…
— Alan Sokal
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Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt for the Internet is a pretty tricky and complicated topic. I think we…
— Vint Cerf
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You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and…
— Octave Mirbeau
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