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We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. – James Ramsey Ullman

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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855

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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. – B.F. Skinner

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Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup. – Bennett Cerf

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Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t. – Lord Raglan

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