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The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

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I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

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No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

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What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

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Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

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I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

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There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

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