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If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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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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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

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Brains are not everything.

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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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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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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 only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

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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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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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