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UNFAIR :; Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage.


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If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.



After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.



What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?



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To go faster you must slow down.



There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.



If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.



What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.



How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?



Let's all be different same as me.

Let's all be different same as me.





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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.



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On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.



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Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.



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