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I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

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I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

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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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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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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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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

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Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

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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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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

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Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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