“There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.”
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
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