"It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work."
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"Activity is the only road to knowledge."
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"Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give."
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"When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree."
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"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."
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"Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art."
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"After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere."
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"Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing."
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"In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific."
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"No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot."
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"Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace."
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"I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well."
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"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."
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"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one."
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"I was a freethinker before I knew how to think."
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"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
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"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."
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"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."
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"Very few people can afford to be poor."
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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
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