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There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

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In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

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Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

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God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

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Kings are the slaves of history.

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Is it possible to say what one really feels?

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What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

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Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal," had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius - man in the abstract - was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others.

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If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

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A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

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After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.

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The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

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If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.

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As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

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But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

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As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

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The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

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In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.

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