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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

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Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.

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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

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Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

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A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

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All great art and literature is propaganda.

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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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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

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We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

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I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.

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