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"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide."
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."
"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."
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"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"
"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."
"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."
"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."
"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
"All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears."
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