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"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending."
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"To live long it is necessary to live slowly."
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"Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on."
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"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."
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"Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
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"Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad 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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"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."
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"I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds."
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"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
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"He sees daily evidence that many things held to be true by nine-tenths of all men are, in reality, false, and he is thereby apt to acquire a doubt of everything, including his own beliefs."
Skepticism
"Time is a great legalizer even in the field of morals."
Philosophy
"In the superman Nietzsche gave the world a conceivable and possible goal for all human effort. But there still remained a problem and it was this: When the superman at last appears on earth, what then? Will there be another super-superman to follow and another super-super-superman after that? In the end, will man become the equal of the creator of the universe, whoever or whatever He may be? Or will a period of decline come after, with return down the long line, through the superman down to man again, and then on to the anthropoid ape, to the lower mammals, to the asexual cell, and, finally, to mere inert matter, gas, ether, and empty space?"
Philosophy
"Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure."
Society
"Morality and honor are not to be confused. 'The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught."
Ethics
"One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious character."
Society
"Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them."
Humor
"I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind."
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