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No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

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Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

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You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

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Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

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Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

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A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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An honest politician is an oxymoron.

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When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

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We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.

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