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From the Onion:
"I don't know why kids keep smoking after we tell them it's a dangerous thing meant for adults."
Voltaire:
"Tobacco is the pleasure of simple folk, and those who live without tobacco don't deserve to live."
Nietzsche:
"But to stand in the middle of this rerum concordia discors and the whole marvellous uncertainty and ambiguity of existence without questioning, without trembling with the rapture of questioning, ...that is what I feel to be contemptible…"
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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