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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
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
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
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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Compromises Goodness Moral Opportunity Politics
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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Love Ourselves Person Quality Reason Time
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
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
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Greatness Opposite Truth
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
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
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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Funny Music Passion Serious Vulgar
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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History Ideas Intellect Life Poison

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