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• The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell…
• You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of…
• ...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
• There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
• Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
• If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
• The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
• Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees…

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