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"Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside."
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"Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy."
"Isn't it a shame that some people's 'weaknesses' can be so strong."
"Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust."
"I know a man who drives 600 yards to work. I know a woman who gets in her car to go a quarter of a mile to a college gymnasium to walk on a treadmill, then complains passionately about the difficulty of finding a parking space. When I asked her once why she didn't walk to the gym and do five minutes less on the treadmill, she looked at me as if I were being willfully provocative. 'Because I have a program for the treadmill,' she explained. 'It records my distance and speed, and I can adjust it for degree of difficulty.' It hadn't occurred to me how thoughtlessly deficient nature is in this regard."
"Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on."
"Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside."
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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism."
"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard."
"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."
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