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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to…
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Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has…
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Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
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The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public…
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Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and…
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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for…
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The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on…
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
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I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government…
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The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to…
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The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are…
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Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.
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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not…
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[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from…
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In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity…
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The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great…
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What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else
— Seth Godin
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There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.
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Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
— H. L. Mencken
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In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one…
— John Edward Williams
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Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong
— Henry Louis Mencken
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