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"Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none."

"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again."

"I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in."

"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."

"Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other."

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

"I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there."
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"After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor."

"Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy."

"When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality."

"Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality."

"We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate."
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