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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

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You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

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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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I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

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The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

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

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