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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The m

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. – Joseph Joubert

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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. – Joseph Joubert

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You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown. – Thomas Mann

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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? – Bertolt Brecht

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What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells? – John Edward Masefield

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