"And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us."
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"Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time in the form of legislation and customs."
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"There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet."
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"There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation."
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"So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!"
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"Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation."
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"Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it."
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"One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me."
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"T-shirts and long pants make me easier to find in a crowd, but also easy to disappear in a crowd because if I am wearing this and suddenly I am not, it's like a Harry Potter invisibility cloak."
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"Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him."
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"When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color."
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"Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end."
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"Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased."
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"Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position."
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"That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace."
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"The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted."
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"It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can."
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"I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage."
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"Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away."
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"Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment."
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