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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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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

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This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

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Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

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I want to be all used up when I die.

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War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

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The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.

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Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

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