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Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the...
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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the...
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Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word ‘academic’ in a pejorative sense...
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You are 87% water; the other 13% keeps you from drowning.
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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle...
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and...
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If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s...
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He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into...
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History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.