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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that...
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Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible,...
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The grace of God means something like Here is your life. You might never...
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The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what...
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Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the...
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Much that passes for education … is not education at all but ritual. The...
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Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy...
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Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn’t appear to belong...