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" I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. "

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" The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. "

" A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. "

" On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. "

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" Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. "

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" Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. "

" Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. "

" Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. "

" Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. "

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" Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on. "

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" Most people want security in this world, not liberty. "

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" I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. "

" Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. "

" Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. "

" The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. "

" Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon. "

" A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. "

" If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. "

" The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. "

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" It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. "

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" An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. "