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The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.
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The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [The Territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
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The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
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The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.
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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.
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The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
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The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
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The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
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