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Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

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The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.

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I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

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The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

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