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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

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Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e

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I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

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Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

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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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With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

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