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" Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. "

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" One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. "

" The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. "

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" Dream in a pragmatic way. "

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" Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. "

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" There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. "

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" Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. "

" Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. "

" Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. "

" My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. "

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