"Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it."
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"The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does."
"Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight"
"There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing."
"Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time."
"No one does wrong voluntarily."
"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."
"An affirmation is almost like a mantra. It does not really matter if what you are affirming is not totally true as yet. By repeating an affirmation over and over again, it becomes embedded in the subconscious mind, and eventually it becomes your reality."
"We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is practical religion."
"What does it feel like to represent a newspaper that used to support Adolf Hitler? And supports the banker Kabbalists that are ruining the world? Did you vote Tory?"
"The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle."
"Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men."
"The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious."
"War does not decide who is right but who is left."
"Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life"
"The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it"
"Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure."
"Britain does not want a return to boom and bust."
"It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does."
"No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger."