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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

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The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

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Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.

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It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

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In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.

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Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

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I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

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Death, only, renders hope futile.

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exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

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Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

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It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

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I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

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I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

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I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

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You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

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In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.

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Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

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