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"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility."
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"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
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