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Even after taking means had become commonplace, the thought that discarding information can increase information has not always been an easy sell.
“Because profit for you is prosperity, wealth, freedom, peace, and so on and so forth; so that a man who, for example, openly and knowingly went against this whole inventory would, in your opinion – well, and also in mine, of course – be an obscurantist or a complete madman, right?”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
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― On Liberty
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― On Liberty
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― On Liberty
― On Liberty
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― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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