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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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He who has never hoped can never despair

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Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

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When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

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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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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

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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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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

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Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

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