History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.

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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

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

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The more stitches, the less riches.

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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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I don't care where I'm from. Nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

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Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence.

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In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

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