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"Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike."
"As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before."
"We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it."
"Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!"
"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."
"There are two groups of people: Herds and individual clever people. Because herds have numerical superiority, individual clever people remain weak in determining the right fate for the country! The solution: Disperse the herds, augment the individuals!"
"Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it."
"Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety."
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"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you."
"For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo."
"That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before."
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