"Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce."
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"In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that."
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"I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible."
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"Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press."
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"In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two"
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"Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife."
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"The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature."
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"Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race."
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"Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?"
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"The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted."
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"Choose your parents wisely."
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"What men really want is not knowledge but certainty."
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"Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy."
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"But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in facing derision, courage in facing the hostility of one's own herd. In these, the bravest soldiers are often lamentably deficient. And above all there is the courage to think calmly and rationally in the face of danger, and to control the impulse of panic fear or panic rage."
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"Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd."
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"When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction."
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"The very best proof that something can be done is that someone has already done it."
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"What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know."
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"I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive."
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"Indemnity for the past and security for the future."
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