Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?

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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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End Happiness History
I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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Believe Boredom Fear Heaven Hell Life Myself Thinking
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Advice Negative Oneself Yourself
The intelligent man is never bored.
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Boredom Intelligence Man One Liner
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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Choice Future Goodness Prediction Reaction Yourself
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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Honesty Myself Wrong
And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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Belief Enough Goodness Life Man People Philosophy Thinking Yourself
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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One Liner Sound True
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Different Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Uncertain Yourself
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy Understand Yourself
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Deep Intelligence Nation Patriot Safety Stupidity
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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Humanity Nation Philosophy Right Understand
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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Beginning End Reach River Sea Story
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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Adversity Fools Hard Time Prediction Reality Service
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Decision Philosophy World
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself

Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?

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