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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

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Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

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I am only human, although I regret it.

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We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

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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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Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

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Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

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It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

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I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry.

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Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

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Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

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There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

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We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

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I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

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