If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
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The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
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Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
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The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
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If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction.
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When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.
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