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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

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What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

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What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

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Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

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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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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

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Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

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Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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