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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."
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"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"
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"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."
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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
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"Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom."
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"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."
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"More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed."
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"Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly."
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"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."
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"The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under."
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"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."
Love
"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves."
Love
"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."
Love
"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."
Time
"Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps."
Nature
"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."
Art
"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."
Pleasure
"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."
Emotional
"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."
Crime
"A man is a poor creature compared to a woman."
Man
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