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"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."
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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

"White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion."
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"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."


"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."


"It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches."


"This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault."


"We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books."


"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."


"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism."


"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."
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