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Medicine: Your money and your life!

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Jicin
Medicine
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Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.
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In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
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On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
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An aphorism is never exactly true it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
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The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
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If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
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Stupidity gets up early that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
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Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
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Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.
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News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
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