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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power."

"A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients."

"There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting."

"He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones."

"Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones."

"Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else."
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