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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

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There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

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A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

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The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

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All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

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The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

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