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Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

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Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

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Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

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The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.

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

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Altogether too many sheep

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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

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Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

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