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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

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Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

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The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

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People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

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When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

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Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

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