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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Thomas Mann

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape
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
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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Death Expression Interest Life
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
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
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Course Happiness Life Name Oneself
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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Change Magic Thinking Vehicle Word
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
Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
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

Expedition Music People Thinking World

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