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The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

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When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.

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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

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There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

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The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

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What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

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What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

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