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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

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I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

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Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

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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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That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

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Youth is just wasted on young people.

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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

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He who has never hoped can never despair

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I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

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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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The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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