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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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What is life but a series of inspired follies.

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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

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It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

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Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

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You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

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Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

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Fear is choosing the safe course

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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

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