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The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

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Everything human is pathetic

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Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

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Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

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We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

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And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

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The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

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Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

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I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

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My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

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The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

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