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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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"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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"Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be."
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"You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do."
Responsibility
"When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed."
Society
"You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter."
Attention
"We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility."
Ethics
"If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached."
Education
"Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution."
Morality
"There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class."
Society
"Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress."
Honesty
"Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet."
Morality
"Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards."
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