If ... Australia and Eurasia could have been interchanged ... Eurasians would be ... reduced to ... fragments. Guns, Germs And Steel
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse. The Trials Of Socrates
Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored. Dying . . . or busy with other assignments. Book VI
It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything. Notes from Underground
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