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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

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...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

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You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

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A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

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What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?

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The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

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Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

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There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

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In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

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If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

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Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

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If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards.

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I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

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There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

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We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

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It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.

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We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.

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