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The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
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The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.
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The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
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The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
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The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever copied.
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as the other.
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The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
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The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
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The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him-an irrational form which no other can outbid.
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
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