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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

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If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

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