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The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.

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There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell.

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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

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A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

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If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

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To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

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Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

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All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

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Books are the liberated spirits of men.

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I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

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Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

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Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

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These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.

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So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

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Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

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We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

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What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.

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When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

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