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«Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired.»
«When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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«We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.»
Author: Milan Kundera
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Novelist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
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«When the human race has once acquired a superstition nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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human race,
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other race,
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remove it,
short,
superstition
«We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.»
Author: Seneca
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About:
Passion,
Virtue
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