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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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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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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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