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"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."
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"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."
"Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being-not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement-not survival at any price, since there's only one price that pays for man's survival: reason."
"Religion is a distraction from true education."
"The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air, And the Heretics said from the platter. They argued it long and they argued it strong, And I hear they are arguing now; But of all the choice spirits who lived in the cheese, Not one of them thought of a cow."
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"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."
"No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first."
"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances."
"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better."
"A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be."
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