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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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Discovery Government Human Liberty Wisdom
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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Danger Government Himself Men Thinking
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Believe Funny Hard Man Transformation
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Freedom Humanity Peace Rule Save War
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
The only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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Fight Government People Wrong
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Children Failure God Man Success Theory
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Belief Freedom Ignorance Rule Wisdom
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Courage Emotion Fear Himself Men Safety
It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
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Education Ourselves Run Time

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