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"A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest."
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"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."
"Survivors can't always choose their methods."
"You can't expect a wolf to play with you and not eventually bite."
"Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived."
"Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himself, who goes on day after day putting an assortment of objects into a hole in his face without becoming surprised or bored."
"Money is good, but I prefer food, water, gold, weapon and energy."
"Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs."
"Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold."
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"Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists."
"In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated."
"There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them."
"Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money."
"Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig."
"The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'."
"Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere."
"It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into."
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