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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

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There is nothing in religion but fiction.

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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

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We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

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Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

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A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.

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Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

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To be a champion you must live like one.

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Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

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