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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are read more

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

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To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented read more

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

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The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes read more

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

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