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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

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A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

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It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

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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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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

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