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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
[ Ideas ]
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An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
[ Unemployment ]
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Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
[ Biography ]
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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
[ Force ]
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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
[ Effort ]
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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
[ Excellence ]
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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
[ Things and Little Things ]
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I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
[ Environmentalism ]
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Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
[ Inferiority ]
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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
[ Surprises ]
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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
[ Government ]
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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
[ Youth ]
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