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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

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Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

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We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

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It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

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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 longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

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If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

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