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"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."
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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

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

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

"They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out."
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"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism."

"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."

"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."

"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."

"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."

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

"The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty."
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