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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
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I am not for women but against men.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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