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The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

John Dos Passos

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Der Verstand kann das moralische Chaos nicht lange unterstützen. Männer stehen unter einem ebenso starken Zwang, ein ethisches Setting für ihr Verhalten zu erfinden, als Spinnen, sich selbst zu weben.

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