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How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?


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If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.



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After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.



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What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?



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To go faster you must slow down.



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There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.



If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.



What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.



Let's all be different same as me.

Let's all be different same as me.



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You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.





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Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.



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I don't like telling really talented people who are amazing what they should do. I'm just going to let them be. It has to be complete freedom - creativity has to be complete freedom.

I don't like telling really talented people who are amazing what they should do. I'm just going to let them be. It has to be complete freedom - creativity has to be complete freedom.



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I haven't thought about aspirations for the future. I like politics, I like serving the public, and we'll see if God offers us another opportunity in the future.



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No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.



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I don't know any woman who is happy with her looks. I certainly wouldn't want to be friends with anyone who was.




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