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I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard, to a certain degree, against everything that might destroy or disorder it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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The machines are too dull when we are lion-poems that move & breathe. ↗

— Michael McClure

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Who, I ask, ever found salvation through the conquests of Alexander? What city was ever more wisely governed because of them, what individual improved? Many indeed you might find whom those conquests enriched, but not one whom they made wiser or more temperate than he was by nature, if indeed they have not made him more insolent and arrogant. Whereas all who now find their salvation in philosophy owe it to Socrates. ↗

— Flavius Claudius Julianus

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The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard. ↗

— Dave Eggers

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In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. ↗

— Daniel Wallace

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Another woman told Constant what it was the crowd felt it had a right to. 'We have a right to know what's going on!' she cried. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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