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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Zivilisiert sein heißt, potentiell Herrscher über alle möglichen Ideen zu sein, und das bedeutet, dass man nicht nur geschockt ist, sondern auch seine eigenen moralisch-ästhetischen Präferenzen bewahrt.

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