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William James

"The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease."

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"The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease."

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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

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"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities " but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world."

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"If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government!"

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"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"

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"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."

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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."

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"Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom."

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"Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations..."

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"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."

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"More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed."

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"Truth is what works."
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