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The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

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Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

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The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

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The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

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Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.

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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

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If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

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When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

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You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

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An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

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Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.

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Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

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I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.

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About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.

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A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

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You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

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An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

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And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens.

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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

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