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"Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes."
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"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"
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"An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!"
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"A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!"
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"It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right."
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"Injustice in the end produces independence."
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"Society therefore is an ancient as the world."
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"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
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"Foulmouthed individuals seem to have their neuron systems replaced by colon structures, given that their terminology profusely consists of "sh*t and f*ck". ['Tolerance zero']"
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"The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no hips - blondes, brunettes and redheads, but always with this bust development, so that a visitor of another species might judge from the preoccupation of artist and audience that the seat of procreation lay in the mammaries. Alice Chicoy...who worked among the shining girls, was wide-hipped and sag-chested and she walked well back on her heels...She was not in the least jealous of the calendar girls and the Coca-Cola girls. She had never seen anyone like them, and she didn't think anyone ever had."
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"Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die."
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"Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it."
Belief


"To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances."
Circumstance


"If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future."
Belief


"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."
Common sense


"If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest."
Money


"An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life."
Life


"The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs."
Character


"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."
Society


"Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it."
Truth


"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
Wrong
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