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Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

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Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.

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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

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The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

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Why not give Christianity a trial?

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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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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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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

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Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

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I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

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