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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
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The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
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The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
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The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.
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The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
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The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
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The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
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The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
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The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
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The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
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The original 'Star Trek' series is the classic one. Its successor, 'The Next Generation,' is less lovable, but at its best, it's smarter.
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