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"Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense."
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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
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"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."
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"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."
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"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"
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"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."
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"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."
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"Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom."
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"More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?"
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"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
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"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."
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"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."
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"Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus:Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore-Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second.This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed."
Logic
"This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation."
Memory
"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
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"Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about."
Society
"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."
History
"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
Patriotism
"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
Law
"Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."
Relationship
"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."
Society
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