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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation. (royalty)
Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more. (science and scientis)
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. (reasonableness)
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me. (self-conflict)
Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. (self-denial)
Success covers a multitude of blunders. (success)
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. (purpose)
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. (quotations)
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. (revolutions and revo)
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness. (riches)
I was a freethinker before I knew how to think. (thoughts and thinkin)
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week. (thoughts and thinkin)
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. (religion)
My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. (religion)
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain. (religion)
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. (sincerity)
A man of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. (taste)
A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures. (sleep)
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period. (thoughts and thinkin)
I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten. (retirement)
We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us. (purpose)
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