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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.

Thomas Mann

Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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Acceptance Artist Injustice Nature Privilege
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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Deprive Himself Man Safety Smoke Touch Understand
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
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.
THOMAS MANN

Feeling Man Mental Talk
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
THOMAS MANN

Death Greatness Love Magic
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
THOMAS MANN

Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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Belong Bright Charm Children Deep Love Myself Ordinary Secret
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
THOMAS MANN

Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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Goal Motive Need People Yourself

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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