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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

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Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

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When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

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I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

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Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

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