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"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
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"As busy as I claim to be, I've still got the greatest job in the world."

"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
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"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."


"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."


"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought."


"The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state."


"Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom."


"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."
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