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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

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What is life but a series of inspired follies.

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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

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Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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Altogether too many sheep

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

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Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

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