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

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I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.

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It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

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The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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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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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 the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

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Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

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I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

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When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.

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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

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We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

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