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"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."

"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."

"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
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"If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come."

"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."

"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal."

"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."
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