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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

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The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

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When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

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The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

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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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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

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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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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

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