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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.

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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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