"All problems are finally scientific problems."
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"I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller."
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"It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls."
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"If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God."
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"Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
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"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."
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"The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it."
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"When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most.""
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"I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes."
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"Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours."
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"The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom."
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"If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'."
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"If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad."
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"It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman."
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"Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one."
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"There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes."
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"People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like."
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"Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer."
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