"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated."
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"Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder."
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"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."
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"To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist."
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"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means."
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"The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum."
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"Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity"
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"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
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"Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability."
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"The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown."
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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
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"Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research."
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"How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms."
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"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."
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"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
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"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
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"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
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"Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world."
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"It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief."
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"There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe."
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