Quote by Thomas Mann
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ide

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. – Thomas Mann

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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. – Thomas Mann

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Death
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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. – Thomas Mann

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Equality
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When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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History

History is Philosophy teaching by example. – Thucydides

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History

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world. – Conrad Black

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History

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. – Henry James

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History

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Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers. – Hesiod

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Trust

And so to those who suggest that we are somehow harming young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives. – Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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Health

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music thats gonna be unpopular. – Billy Corgan

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Music

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song. – Phil Ochs

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Poetry