 You`ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they`d never reach a conclusion.
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can`t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can`t sleep with the window open.
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves
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Old men are dangerous it doesn`t matter to them what is going to happen to the world
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You`ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
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Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way
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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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We don`t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven`t and don`t.
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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
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My reputation grows with every failure.
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that`s the essence of inhumanity
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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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He who has never hoped can never despair.
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Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English
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We don`t bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don`t dress well and we`ve no manners.
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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
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You see things; and you say, `Why?` But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
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I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
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You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world
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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart`s desire. The other is to get it.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you`re driving at another.
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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don`t let you out till you are dead.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.
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Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.
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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn`t!
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
(quotationspage.com)
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
(quotationspage.com)
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.
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A day`s work is a day`s work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day`s sustenance, a night`s repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
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The liar`s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
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A fool`s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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"A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner."
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