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"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil."
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"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
"To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil."
"What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?"
"The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck."
"It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it."
"Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever."
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"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."
"In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory."
"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."
"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."
"Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious."
"The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue."
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