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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.
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How strange to have failed as a social creature, even criminals do not fail that way, they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.
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The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
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I urge you to work together in promoting a true, worldwide ethical mobilization which, beyond all differences of religious or political convictions, will spread and put into practice a shared ideal of fraternity and solidarity, especially with regard to the poorest and those most excluded.
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Just a tiny red sliver remains in the battery icon. I wish humans came with the same kind of indicator. It would make things much easier. You would know how to deal with every person on the planet, and I'd always be in the red.
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The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized.
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We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children, Where nobody dies, In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.
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So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! The farce. There is no need for torture: hell is other people.
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If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.
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