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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

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There is only one universal passion fear.

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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

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

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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

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Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

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Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

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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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If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

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