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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
 
You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
 
There is only one thing in the world that is worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
 
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
 
The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.
 
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
 
Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up.
 
No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical. 
 
Our identity is not a stable essence, but an ongoing project of presentation and performance.
 
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
 
BIRTH: The first and dirtiest of all disasters.
 
The way to become boring is to say everything. 
 
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
 
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.
 
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.
 
A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.
 
We cannot address complexity without using our own complexity.
 
To seek wisdom rather than truth. It is more within our grasp.
 
"Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it." Or, in other words? "Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not." This negative statement is final, because it is negative.
 
I would rather die standing than live on my knees!
 
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