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Theorizing

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Sire, I have no need of that hypothesis.

Pierre Simon de Laplace

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Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned—the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg (Lord Acton)

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It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

Agatha Christie

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All genuine political theories presuppose man to be evil, i.e., by no means an unproblematic but a dangerous and dynamic being.

Carl Schmitt

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I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.

René Descartes

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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire

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