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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

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English is the easiest language to speak badly.

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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

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Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

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You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

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I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.

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

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

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I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

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Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.

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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

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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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Money is a most important thing in the world.

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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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