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Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.

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3 months ago

Change never stops.

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3 months ago

Things change as time passes; nothing lasts, not even stone, not even happiness.

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3 months ago

It is a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matches your political purpose; and it never does. Best to strip all statements of real content, this is a basic law of diplomacy.

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3 months ago

All empires, after death, have a long half-life.

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3 months ago

True intimacy does not consist of sexual intercourse, which can be done with strangers and in a state of total alienation; intimacy consists of talking for hours about what is most important in one's life.

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4 months ago

That's a large part of what economics is—people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have.

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4 months ago

Sometimes the beginning of a relationship determines how the rest of it will go.

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4 months ago

Half a century in modern science is a long time.

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4 months ago

Science is many things, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

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4 months ago

We choose the ways we enforce our religious beliefs in the behavior of daily life. This is true of all cultures. And we can choose new ways.

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4 months ago

Beauty is the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and anticipated world is often more rich than anything real.

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4 months ago

When you expect to live another two hundred years, you behave differently from when you expect to live only twenty.

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4 months ago

He didn't like the aftermath of things. Everything seemed finished, done, revealed as pointless. It was always this way.

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4 months ago

The pleasure and stability of dining rooms has always occurred against the catastrophic background of universal chaos; such moments of calm are things as fragile and temporary as soap bubbles, destined to burst almost as soon as they blow into existence.

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4 months ago

Horrible how the revolution was being portrayed on Earth: extremists, communists, vandals, saboteurs, reds, terrorists. Never the words rebel or revolutionary, words of which half the Earth (at least) might approver. No, it was isolated groups of insane, destructive terrorists.