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Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

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Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

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Art must not serve might.

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Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

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I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

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My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

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Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

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People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.

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Biography

Nationality: Czechoslovakian

Type: Writer

Born: January 9th, 1890

Died: December 25th, 1938

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