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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

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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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Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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

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A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

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We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

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Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

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Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.

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Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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