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The capacity of human beings to bore one another

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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a

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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Immorality: The morality of those who are h

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Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.

The average man never really thinks from end to e

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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clich s.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to av

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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of

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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. 

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of h

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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. 

Most people want security in this world, not libe

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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The aver

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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes

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The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chie

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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

We are here and now. Further than that, all

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We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you

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Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity

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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

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