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“ They say that to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is fully calculable, even to ourselves we are strange. ”

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The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

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History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

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Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.

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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

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