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To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

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Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

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It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.

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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

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All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

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Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

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Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

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A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.

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Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

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The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

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It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

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Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.

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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.

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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

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Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

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A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

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There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

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