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"The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe."
"If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the sum of all sounds and words ever uttered by every human who has ever lived. To declare that Earth must be the only planet with life in the universe would be inexcusably bigheaded of us."
"This is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I'm going to do things right. I'm going to be a different person, a good person. I'm going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered."
"But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing."
"To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge."
"He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit."
"Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them."
"It is very helpful to have a partner on whom you can rely in any situation. But the problem starts because some people don't like it that one twin would be president and the other prime minister."
"The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything."
"Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone."
"Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine."
"Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective."
"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."
"Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter."
"So from the housing standpoint, steady as you go, I think, would be the best medicine."
"I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless."
"Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world."
"I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else - that would be fatal."
"To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx."
"It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true."
