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"Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform."
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"It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones."
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"Once one's vision changes to, 'I don't have a sofa in my house', he will purchase the sofa with a loan and pay 1.5% interest on it. One should first make a note of how much is the 'necessity'."
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"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."
"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf."
"When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last."
"If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships."
"The good life as I conceive it is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good."
"Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself."
"Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness."
"Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."
"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
"I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."
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