War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

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People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

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Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

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