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"Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's."
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"Expect stupid. It's everywhere."
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"In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same."
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"Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be."
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"I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics."
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"I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism."
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"Motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches."
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"People, generally, suck."
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"Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common."
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"No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles."
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"Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea."
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"Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness."
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"I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race-I am ashamed to belong to such a species."
Emotion
"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."
Time
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
People
"There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle."
Equality
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
Fact
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
Nation
"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."
Happiness
"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."
Science
"Perhaps the greatest importance of the family, in these days of contraceptives, is that it preserves the habit of having children."
Family
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