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I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

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That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

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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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You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

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Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

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I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

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The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

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