A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development. - Hugh Kingsmill

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Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9<br>11 era, we're not going to be able to put the security back in the NSA.

Hugh Kingsmill

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

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Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

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Friends are God's apology for relations.

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There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of universities and churches alike is to trim and tame enthusiasm, to suppress curiosity, and, in short, to whittle immortal souls into serviceable props of the established order.

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Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude.

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It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

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But when we find that one person who completes us, we don't give up. No matter how bad we screw up. We make it right.

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