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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

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No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

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You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

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Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

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