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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly ...more

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...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

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Nothing exists except through human consciousness

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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.