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The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

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It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

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If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.

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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .

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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

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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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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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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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