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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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