Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
All movements go too far.
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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.
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Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
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He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time
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There is no free lunch.
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The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing
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We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual. George F.
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So little time, so little to do.
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A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.
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Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.
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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.
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College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks."
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
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I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. G.K.
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How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.
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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.
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What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.
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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
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Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill all and you are a God. Jean Rostand #0301 Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.
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The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
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New York: A third-rate Babylon
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Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.
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