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«Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.»
Author: Georges Bataille
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«This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
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«Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.»
«Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
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accident, automatic, destroys, For Better or Worse, frame, occurrences, pattern, prediction, predictions, procedures, processes, projection, projections, unexpected
«Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.»
«I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.»
«It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.»
«The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
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«It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.»
«It's the first drop that destroys you - there's no harm at all in the last»
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