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It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

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What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

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I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

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We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

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[Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

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I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

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The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

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Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

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