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• That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that…
• I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a…
• If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
• But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.…
• This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were…
• One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…
• Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
• The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human…
• Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
• Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition…
• Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
• Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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