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"It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, because it is opposed to the transfer of the ownership of railroads or cotton mills to the state. If a man says that sulphuric acid does not make a good hand lotion, he is not expressing hostility to sulphuric acid as such; he is simply giving his opinion concerning the limitations of its use."
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"We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics."
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"A thousand minus one is never a thousand."
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"In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient."
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"For nothing is more democratic than logic, it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses."
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"Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does."
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"I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed."
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"A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity."
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"The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority."
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"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today."
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"We have a saying up here. 'Life is wasted on the living."
Philosophy
"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."
Science
"If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?"
Communication
"Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake."
Science
"The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin. Again the pause. 'Oh d-'And that was with a coffee machine.' He waited."
Humor
"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
Life
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."
Family
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
Difference
"Time is bunk."
Time
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
Imagination
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