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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

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The criminal law is no use to decent people.

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Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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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 surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

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I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

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We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.

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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

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