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- We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is…
- I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum
- There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
- It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves;…
- The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
- Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the…
- At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians…
- Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends....
- The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged…
- Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.
- If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
- As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will…
- Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.
- I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.
- There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
- The harder I work the more I live.
- It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
- Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind…
- After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply…
- Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.
- Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves…
- The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
- Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.
- Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
- [...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered…
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