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Quote by Theodor Adorno
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. – Theodor Adorno

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Work while you work, play while you play – this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. – Theodor Adorno

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Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. – Theodor Adorno

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The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection. – William H. Seward

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[T]he beautiful world of blossom and love and friendship had lost none of its power to please her fancy and thrill her heart… life still called to her with many insistent voices. – L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables [the comfort of knowing the world goes on

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This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. Made-in-China goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We cant manufacture the happiness of our people. – Ai Weiwei

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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton

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History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it. – Henry Steele Commanger, The Nature and the Study of History

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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. – Oliver Goldsmith

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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. – Aristotle

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