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- The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
- You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can…
- A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be…
- 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…
- Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
- I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in…
- I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last,…
- 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…
- Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
- Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My…
- 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…
- You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why…
- We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we…
- In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by…
- Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
- Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
- Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is…
- Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
- Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
- Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
- Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
- Better never than late.
- A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
- The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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