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" Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. "

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" Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. "

" That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. "

" The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. "

" Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. "

" A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. "

" A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. "

" It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' "

" So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. "

" Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. "

" Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. "

" If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. "

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" The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. "

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" Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. "

" Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. "

" Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. "

" Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. "

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" That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. "

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