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"The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road."
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"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less."
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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
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"How many times can one have a heart attack within a week?"
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"Knowledge will help you to solve any problem."
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"In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be."
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"Getting an education is not only a matter of checking the boxes as your life progresses, it is a gift which can enrich every aspect of your world."
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"Knowledge is knowledge whether it teaches you construction or destruction."
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"Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind."
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"I don't want to believe. I want to know."
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"My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way."
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"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."
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"Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person."
Love
"Progress was all right. Only it went on too long."
Progress
"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."
Time
"Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more."
Men
"Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation."
Men
"Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband)."
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"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."
Truth
"Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear."
Comedy
"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."
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