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"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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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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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."
Music
"If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth."
Nature
"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite."
Art
"Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."
Death
"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."
Nation
"Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry."
Poetry
"A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray."
Faith
"Man lives by imagination."
Imagination
"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men."
Man
"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself."
Life
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