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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

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Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

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The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.

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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

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No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

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Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

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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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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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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

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