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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
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The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
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The silent bear no witness against themselves.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
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Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.
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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity and tolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
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If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
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People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
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A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.
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Death … It's the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
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