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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

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Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

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Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

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All problems are finally scientific problems.

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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

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Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

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Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

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When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

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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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Never repeat old grievances.

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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

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