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"When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace."
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"Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning."

"My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions."

"Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better."

"If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale."

"You have put yourself at risk to activate your instinctual genius."

"Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form."
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"Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig."

"A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot."

"We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries."

"The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'."
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