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"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
"My truth could be very different than your truth."
"We can't even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending."
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"It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required."
"Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect."
"I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."
"Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."
"The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine."
"Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so."
"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult."
"It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy."
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