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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her

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Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

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The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

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

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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

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

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If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

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When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

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The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

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