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The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
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The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.
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The amazing thing about a football team is we can disagree and fight like brothers, but then we come back together. We are able to be open and honest about things that may offend us.
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The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind.
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The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
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The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
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The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.
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The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
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The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
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The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.
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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.
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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
― Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
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