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"The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life." – Friedrich Nietzsche, "Untimely Meditations"
"If this city system of colonisation goes on, our children will advertise a green tree, like an elephant, as 'this most wonderful production of nature ;' and the meaning of green grass will only be to be found in the dictionary." – Letitia Elizabeth Landon, "Romance and Reality" (1831), Vol 1, Chapter 24
"We have already mentioned what may, perhaps, appear paradoxical to some of our readers, — that the division of labour can be applied with equal success to mental as to mechanical operations, and that it ensures in both the same economy of…
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