"A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated."
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"I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house."
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"All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art."
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"Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children."
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"I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian."
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"Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst."
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"People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich."
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"Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light."
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"The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery."
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"Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession."
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"This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets."
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"In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him."
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"Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women."
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"You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy"
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"I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place."
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"War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly."
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"Nothing makes a man so selfish as work."
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"No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare ."
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"The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man."
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"We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it."
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