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

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Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

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You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

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People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

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There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

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Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

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When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

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Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

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