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There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

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You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

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A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the "what is next", of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

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I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

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The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

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My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.

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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for the things you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personal belief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or evidence to the contrary.

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Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

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There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

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I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

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