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- I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it…
- Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.
- Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
- Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an…
- To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard…
- Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.
- What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the…
- The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always…
- When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up…
- The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called…
- It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and…
- In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out…
- What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for…
- I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when…
- There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been…
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window…
- A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
- Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
- I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals…
- I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a…
- A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
- Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and…
- Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep…
- When I see that the nineteenthcentury has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have…
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