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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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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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. – Henry Havelock Ellis

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We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

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

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