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Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

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The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

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Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

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You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

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All problems are finally scientific problems.

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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

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Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

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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 associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

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