“ The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. ”
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“ The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. ”
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“ What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ”
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“ It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. ”
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“ Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. ”
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“ Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. ”
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“ So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces. ”
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“ The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum. ”
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“ The Promised Land always lies on the other side of the wilderness. ”
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“ Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. ”
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“ Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos. ”
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“ The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ”
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“ There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. ”
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“ The Promised Land always lies on the other side of the wilderness. ”
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“ The Promised Land always lies on the other side of the wilderness. ”
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“ We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves. ”
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“ There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. ”
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“ There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. ”
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“ What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ”
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“ The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well and harmoniously developed body, tense muscles, an elastic and finely toned skin, bright eyes, grace and animation of carriage - all these things which are essential to beauty are the conditions of health. ”
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“ The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts with the prominent display required for sexual allurement. This end is far more effectively attained, with greater advantage and less disadvantage, by concentrating the chief ensigns of sexual attractiveness on the upper and more conspicuous parts of the body… ”
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“ Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons, if sincere, can have the same philosophy. ”
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“ Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. ”
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