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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

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I do not know what I think until I write it.

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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

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No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

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The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

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