"The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent."
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"When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy."
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"It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful."
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"The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation."
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"Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others."
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"Principles without programs are platitudes."
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"What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it."
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"All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy."
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"The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never."
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"A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."
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"You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself."
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"Syllables govern the world."
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"Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination."
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"What's the use of money if you have to earn it."
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"All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!"
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"Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world."
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"The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them."
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"Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money."
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"An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile."
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"I try to follow his example, not to imitate him."
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