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If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

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God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

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Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

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Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

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The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

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there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

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The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

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Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

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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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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

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We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

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

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It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

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It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

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Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

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A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

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