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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."
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"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."
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"The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism."
Communism

"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic."
War

"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."
Man

"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."
History

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

"Nothing is inevitable until it happens."
Nothing

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

"Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914."
War

"No war is inevitable until it breaks out."
War

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