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"Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!"
Appreciation
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
Dying
"One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."
Creativity
"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."
Time
"An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates."
Art
"People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives."
People
"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject."
Education
"I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally."
Life
"Speech is civilization itself."
Civilization
"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
Democracy
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