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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

Thomas Mann

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Faith Love Reason Strong
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
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.
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Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
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
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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Expectation Feeling Joy Life Love Possession Sight Understand Unknown
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
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

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