"To be a champion you must live like one."
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"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."
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"It's a pity youth is wasted on the young."
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"My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen."
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"The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it."
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"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him."
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"In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key."
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"We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?"
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"Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent."
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"A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine."
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"You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell."
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"An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets."
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"Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?"
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"Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none."
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"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any."
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"If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light."
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"It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made."
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"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."
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"What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day."
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"He who has never hoped can never despair"
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