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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

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Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

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As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

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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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Imagination is the beginning of creation.

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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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