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"It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed."
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"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."

"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."

"A healthy attitude is contagious, let others catch it."

"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
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"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out."

"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble."

"Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know."

"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."

"Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation."

"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."

"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."
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