"[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time."
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"Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu."
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"The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen."
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"The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death."
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"When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since."
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"Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless."
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"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."
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"If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself."
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"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."
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"Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes"
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"The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me."
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"Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it."
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"We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to."
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"A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member."
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"Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat."
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"I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum"
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"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."
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"A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her"
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"The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!"
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"Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men."
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