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Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.


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The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.



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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.



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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.



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When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.





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