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"Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man."

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The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

— Amos Oz

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