"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him."
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"No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does"
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"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."
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"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."
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"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
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"Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."
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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
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"What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity."
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"The most sincere form of love is love for food"
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"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
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"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
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"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
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"Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you."
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"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
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"When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part."
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"At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox."
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"Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation."
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"Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals"
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"Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems."
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