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God must love stupid people, he made so many.
 
Nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye.
 
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
 
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
 
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
 
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good. 
 
Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
 
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
 
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
 
Advertising - the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
 
CYNIC: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
 
the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
 
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
 
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
 
Do not give your children moral and religious instruction unless you are quite sure they will not take it too seriously. Better be the mother of Henri Quatre and Nell Gwynne than of Robespierre and Queen Mary Tudor.
 
If you have no problem, you've got a problem.
 
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.
 
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
 
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
 
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
 
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