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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

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Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.

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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

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Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

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General consultant to mankind.

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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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English is the easiest language to speak badly.

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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

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As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.

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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

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No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

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