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" Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. "
Aldous Huxley
Man
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" An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. "
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" What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. "
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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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