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- But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad…
- Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending…
- There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so…
- Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
- Then I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but…
- Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing…
- Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we…
- The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love.…
- Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in…
- Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must…
- Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights…
- I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure…
- I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting" ... But…
- The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical…
- Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.
- No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His…
- All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of…
- The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or…
- Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.
- Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
- If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.
- ...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why…
- Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.
- You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all…
- He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle