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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

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If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

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Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

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If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

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If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

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There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

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A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

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The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

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Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

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The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

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Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

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