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| A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. | | Happiness and Misery | | |
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| A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. | | Altruism and Cynicism; Vice and Virtue | | |
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| Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life. | | Wisdom and Ignorance | | |
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| Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. | | Law and Politics | | |
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| Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. | | Science and Religion | | |
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| I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. | | Vice and Virtue | | |
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| If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it. | | Vice and Virtue | | |
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| My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately. | | Wisdom and Ignorance | | |
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| The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. | | Wisdom and Ignorance | | |
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| The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. | | Altruism and Cynicism | | |
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| The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. | | Success and Failure | | |
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| There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. | | Art and Literature | | |
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| What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness. | | Wealth and Poverty | | |
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| When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, it's called ferocity. | | Altruism and Cynicism | | |
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