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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

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Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

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If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

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Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

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Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

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You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

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Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.

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Biography

Nationality: Czechoslovakian

Type: Writer

Born: January 9th, 1890

Died: December 25th, 1938

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