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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.

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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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