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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Thomas Mann

Everything is politics.
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One Liner Politics
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
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Infinite Life Sea Thinking Time
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
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 probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
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
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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Order Simplify Subject
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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Affair Death Himself Man Survive
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Deep Distance Mystery Shape

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