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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

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We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

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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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Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

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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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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

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Altogether too many sheep

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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

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I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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