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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

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At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

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Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

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If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.

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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

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A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

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Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

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The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

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Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

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Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

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Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

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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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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

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