The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
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Hatred comes from the heart contempt from the head and neither feeling is quite within our control.
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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
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