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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now."

"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it."

"Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil."

"New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American."

"Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized."

"The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses."

"Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning."
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