Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.
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We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
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The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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...with the black marble which gives the fireplace the air of a miniature family vault, to suggest early Victorian commercial respectability, belief in money, Bible fetichism, fear of hell always at war with fear of poverty, instinctive horror of the passionate character of art, love and Roman Catholic religion, and all the first fruits of plutocracy in the early generations of the industrial revolution.
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Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Funny
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
Funny
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He who has never hoped can never despair.
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures.
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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The Saints are bearing the entire financial burden of playing here at Tiger Stadium. Everything. We don't expect to lose anything at all. We're ensured against any loss whatsoever and against wear and tear on the stadium and the field.
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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.
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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
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Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.
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No religious organization must be allowed to impose its biased views on the rest of us about what they consider to be proper morality, education, sexual behavior, marriage, divorce, birth control, abortion, stem cell research by legislating their private prejudices on the rest of us.
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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.
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