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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
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The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
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The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
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The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.
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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.
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The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow.
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The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
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The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
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The prosecutors say that Mr. Strauss-Kahn forced the complainant to have oral and other sex with him. How? Did he have a gun? Did he have a knife? He's a short fat old man.
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The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
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The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.
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The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
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The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
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