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“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”
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“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”
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“You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.”
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“You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.”
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“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”
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“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”
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“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”
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“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”
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“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
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“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
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“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”
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“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”
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“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”
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“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”
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“Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.”
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“Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.”
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“Dream in a pragmatic way.”
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“Dream in a pragmatic way.”
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“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
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“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
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“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”
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“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”
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“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”
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“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”
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“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
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“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
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“Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.”
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“Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.”
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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.”
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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.”
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“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
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“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
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“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”
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“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”
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“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”
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“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”
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“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”
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“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”
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“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.”
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“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.”
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“The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.”
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“The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.”
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“Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
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“Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
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“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
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“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
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“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.”
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“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.”
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