"Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes."
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"Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!"
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"Success consists in the climb."
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"Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance."
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"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."
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"The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy."
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"Laughter is higher than all pain."
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"The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before."
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"The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia."
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"I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW."
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"The only way to retain love is to give it away."
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"All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist."
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"The supernatural is the natural not yet understood."
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"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do."
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"Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them."
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"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it."
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"A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him."
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"Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity."
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"Your neighbor is the man who needs you."
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"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs."
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