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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

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The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

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Chastity - you can carry it too far.

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Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

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But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

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All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

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The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

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Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

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What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

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Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

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Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879

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The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

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