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The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war. – Lester B. Pearson

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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. – H. L. Mencken

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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. – Simone Weil

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The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. – Charles Caleb Colton

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An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work. – Dean Kamen

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Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that Ive found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. – Marilyn Hacker

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If I can create some space that people havent experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, thats the kind of structure I seek to create. – Tadao Ando

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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is whats known as infinity. – Jean Cocteau

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Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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