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"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices."

"History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated."

"We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible."

"Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury."

"From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment."

"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience."

"These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution."
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