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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
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An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
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You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
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You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
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