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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

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Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

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I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

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A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

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To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

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The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.

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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

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All problems are finally scientific problems.

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