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Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Thomas Mann

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
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
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
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
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
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Himself Man Quite Recognition
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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Culture People Talk Technology
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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Death Greatness Love Magic
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.
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Foundation Humanity Important Theory Wisdom
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
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life

Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

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