"The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved."
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"If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy."
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""But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art."
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"Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins."
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"All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter."
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"Every man's memory is his private literature."
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"In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation."
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"Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry"
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"Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]"
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"Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument."
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"Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty."
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"Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?"
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"That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent."
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"In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity."
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"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."
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"The proper study of mankind is books."
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"To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human."
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"Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness."
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"Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process."
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"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."
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