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"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
Criticism

"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them."
Education

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
Love

"Time stays, we go."
Time

"Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates."
Perception

"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant."
Politics

"The cynics are right nine times out of ten."
Reflection

"Life is a dead-end street."
Life

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
Perception

"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt."
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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
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"It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess."
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"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
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"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."
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"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."
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"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."
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"The remedy is worse than the disease."
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"Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
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"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
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"You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal."
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