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"You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"

"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."

"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."

"Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again."

"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"
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"If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything."

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

"Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything."

"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."
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