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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

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My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

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Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

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People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

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A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

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If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

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