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 | "There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better
achieve without it." | |
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Found in the topic War.
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| "Every artist writes his own autobiography." | |
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Found in the topic Art.
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| "The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the
absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum." | |
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Found in the topic Insanity.
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| "Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most
thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least
make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical
fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive
when they are told the "name" of a thing." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the
arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is
life itself." | |
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Found in the topic Cynic.
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| "The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product." | |
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Found in the topic Products.
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| "All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a
volcano of revolution." | |
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Found in the topic Civilization.
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| "To make a mountain of a mole-hill." | |
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Found in the topic Mountains.
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| "One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless
one also knows how to take." | |
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Found in the topic Gift.
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| "To be a leader of men one must turn one"s back on men." | |
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Found in the topic Leadership.
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| "Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money. and in
its higher forms it is a kind of poetry." | |
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Found in the topic Poetry.
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| "The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines
what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men." | |
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Found in the topic Machinery.
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| "What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of
command." | |
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Found in the topic Morality.
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| "A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest." | |
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Found in the topic Belief.
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| "The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic
asylum." | |
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Found in the topic Optimism.
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| "In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it
is the things that are met with by the way." | |
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Found in the topic Philosophy.
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| "The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago
... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human
hands." | |
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Found in the topic Housework.
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| "The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole
texture of our man"s or woman"s body, is the pattern of all the process of
our life." | |
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Found in the topic Sex.
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| "What we call "progress" is the exchange of one nuisance for another
nuisance." | |
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Found in the topic Progress.
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| "The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a
wilderness." | |
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Found in the topic Promise.
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