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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
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The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
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The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.
Source: De slinger van Foucault (2007) -
The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
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The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.
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The more you know the less you need to say.
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The more you own, the more you know you don't own.
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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949) -
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
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The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
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The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.
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The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably.
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The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
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The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
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The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
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The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
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