"Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing."
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"Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul."
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"When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years."
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"Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them."
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"Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it"
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"Habit: The great economizer of energy."
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"When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing."
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"There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done."
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"Lawyers are the jackals of commerce."
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"A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure."
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"Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization."
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"The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward."
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"Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it."
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"Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself."
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"All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity."
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"To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre."
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"Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket."
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"If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies."
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"Imitation is the sincerest form of insult."
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"The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."
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