It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.Karl Kraus
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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