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"I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies."
"Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills."
"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."
"Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness."
"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."
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"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."
"Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence."
"In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things."
"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves."
"Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant."
"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."
"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."
"The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive."
"Hardware works best when it matters the least."
"The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face."
"The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life."
"Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest."
"The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people."
"Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people."
"The University brings out all abilities, including incapability."
"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."
"Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays."
"Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization."
"We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended."
