"War does not decide who is right but who is left."
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"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it."
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"All progress means war with society."
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"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."
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"The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing."
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"A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art."
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"It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date."
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"A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle."
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"The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality."
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"In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it."
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"It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion."
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"Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm."
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"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
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"Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job."
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"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
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"Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor."
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"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor."
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"Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches."
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"Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels."
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"Success covers a multitude of blunders."
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