"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is."
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"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.“
-Thomas Szasz
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"A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power."
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"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."
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"The most positive men are the most credulous."
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-Walter Lippmann
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"Strong women only marry weak men."
-Bette Davis
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