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" The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. "

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Welcome

Future

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Intolerance

Egotism

" Only the dead have seen the end of the war. "

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" Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. "

" The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. "

" The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. "

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Meanings

Experience

" Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. "

" The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. "

" A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. "

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" For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. "

" If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved. "

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Been

Long

" Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. "