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Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

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Alexander Herzen
Age: 57 †
Born: 1812
Born: March 25
Died: 1870
Died: January 9
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Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
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False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.
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