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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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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.
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I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
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The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
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We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
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The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.
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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
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If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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