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    The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes, almost two genera- a small minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them. The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority, and to the minority only. The majority has no more to do with it than it has to do with ecclesiastic politics on Mars. In so far as that heritage is apprehended, it is viewed with enmity. But in the main it is not apprehended at all.

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To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, read more

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Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster.

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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

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The three-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn read more

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Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era read more

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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

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The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a read more

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The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.

The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.

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