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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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People don’t like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 2 March 1861

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We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. – Bryan White

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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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Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. – Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva

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So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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Im finding, as I get older, that Im not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life – redemption does happen, and its cool when it does – but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own). – George Saunders

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In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. – Robert Bork

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