"Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis."
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"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort."
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"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
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"Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on."
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"The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols."
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs."
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"I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor."
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"Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on."
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"We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation."
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"Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it."
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"A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing."
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"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us."
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"The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it."
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"I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it."
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"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others."
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"A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often."
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"I never expect a soldier to think."
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"When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical."
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"Any belief worth having must survive doubt"
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"Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity."
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