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There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
 
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
 
Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French and is all organized by the Swiss.

Hell is where the police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss is all organized by the Italians.
 
We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.
 
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
 
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
 
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
 
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
 
The revolutionary will be the one who can revolutionize himself.
 
Good example is half a sermon.
 
Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
 
Nowadays, we are confronted by a huge gap between rich and poor. This is not only morally wrong, but practically a mistake. It leads to the rich living in anxiety and the poor living in frustration, which has the potential to lead to more violence. We have to work to reduce this gap. It's truly unfair that some people should have so much while others go hungry.
 
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
 
Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
 
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
 
True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
 
Language continually asserts by the syntax of subject and predicate that 'things' somehow 'have' qualities and attributes. A more precise way of talking would insist that the 'things' are produced, are seen as separate from other 'things,' and are made 'real' by their internal relations and by their behaviour in relationship with other things and with the speaker. It is necessary to be quite clear about the universal truth that whatever 'things' may be in their pleromatic and thingish world, they can only enter the world of communication and meaning by their names, their qualities and their attributes (i.e., by reports of their internal and external relations and interactions).
 
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
 
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
 
The neurosis in which the search for safety takes its clearest form is in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis. Compulsive- obsessives try frantically to order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.
 
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