"The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name."
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"This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings."
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"Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy."
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"You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk."
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"There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation."
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"Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital."
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"De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history."
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"It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death."
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"Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics"."
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"Everyone thinks this way at some point. The important thing is to power through and get to learning. If you really don't have the time Let Me Handle Your Analytics."
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"God: a gaseous vertebrate."
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"Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance."
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"Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself."
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"I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven."
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"Nothing short of everything will really do."
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"To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable."
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"I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both."
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"Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water."
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"God in the safe and Ford on the shelves."
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"To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme."
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