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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
 
Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.
 
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
 
The opposite of love is not hate; its opposite is indifference.
 
When we think of coconuts or pigs, there are no coconuts or pigs in the brain.
 
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
 
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
 
The status quo sucks.
 
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. 
 
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
 
The war, of course, furnished many examples of this pattern: the casual fact, the creative imagination, the will to believe, and out of these three elements, a counterfeit of reality to which there was a violent instinctive response. For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities, and that in many cases they help to create the very fictions to which they respond.
 
Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
 
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
 
Success in everything from athletics to chess to the stock market boosts testosterone levels.
 
The aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only needs of humanity.
 
As for testosterone, it's gotten a bum rap. Yes, it has tons to do with aggression but it doesn't cause aggression as much as sensitizes you to the environmental triggers of aggression.
 
Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.
 
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
 
an idealist is a hypocrite, because he is always trying to become what he is not, instead of being and understanding what he is.
 
SUBURBIA: A place where the developers bulldoze all of the trees -- then name the streets after them.
 
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