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In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
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In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
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Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
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Intelligence is like an underwear. It is important that you have it, but not necessary that you show it off.
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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
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It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
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It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.
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It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
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