The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
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Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.
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