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Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

Thomas Mann

Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
THOMAS MANN

Culture People Talk Technology
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
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Arrest Feeling Home Stand Suffering World Worst
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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Feeling Man Mental Talk
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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End Myself Need Sleep
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Expression Ideas Possession Smell Yourself
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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Act Adversity Fatal Grace Poised Positive
He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
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Expedition Music People Thinking World
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
THOMAS MANN

Human Reason Social

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