"We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others."
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"One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly."
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"The righteous one has no sense of humor."
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"When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does."
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"Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear."
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"For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him."
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"First feed the face, then talk right and wrong."
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"Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure."
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"It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills."
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"The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one."
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"One must live well to know what living is."
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"What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization."
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"I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price."
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"Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already."
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"The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news."
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"There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work."
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"Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features."
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"One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life."
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"Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!"
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"If you wan to steal money, don't rob a bank - open one."
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