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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.

Thomas Mann

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
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
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
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
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
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
Speech is civilization itself.
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Civilization One Liner Speech
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 harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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Deprive Himself Man Safety Smoke Touch Understand
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Coward Escape Peace Problem War
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
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
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine

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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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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