"Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers."

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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

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"Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it."

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"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."

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