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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
"Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found."
"Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter."
"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."
"It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts."
"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."
"A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally."
"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them."
"People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom."
"I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day."
"Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus."
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