"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
-Thomas Mann
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"For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.“
-Thomas Mann
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"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."
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"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."
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"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."
-Thomas Mann
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"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive."
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"Everything is politics."
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"What none of the critics, positive or negative, grasped was that 'The Searchers' was a different kind of Western, something much darker and more disturbing than the usual fare."
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"I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that."
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"The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media."
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"Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could."
-Henrietta Szold
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"Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge."
-Carl D. Anderson
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