Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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...animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.
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Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.
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...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.
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Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jaw...
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Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working...
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
