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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

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I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

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We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

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Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin-a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing.

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If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

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Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

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Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

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People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

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The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

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The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

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Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

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A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

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