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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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

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Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

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We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

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Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

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When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

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Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

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I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.

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It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

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The criminal law is no use to decent people.

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

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