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We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Hen

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages. – Alfred North Whitehead

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A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

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Civilization

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud

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Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend. – Benjamin Franklin

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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder. – Eberhard Arnold

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I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think its beautiful. Im such a romantic, and I always have been. – Portia de Rossi

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But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present. – Nick Lampson

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