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"But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again."

"He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste."

"I think the sea has thrown itself upon me and been answered, at least in part, and I believe I am a little changed - not essentially, but changed and transubstantiated as anyone is who has asked a question and been answered."

"There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air."

"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question."
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"Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress."


"It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community."


"In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth."


"The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods."


"In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing."


"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."


"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature."


"Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister."
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