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Karel Capek Quotes: I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.
         

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.


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Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.



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A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.



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Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.



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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.



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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...



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