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In Wilson’s scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
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Like many a man before him, he found himself forced into a lie because the truth simply would not be believed.
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Cold calculated awareness that their power lay in keeping the people in ignorance.
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It is an emotional impossibility for any man to believe in his own death.
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Luck is a bonus that follows careful planning—it’s never free.
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Convinced of their destiny to rule, they convinced themselves that the end justified the means.
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It takes all nations to keep the peace, but it only takes one to start a war.
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A totalitarian political religion is incompatible with free investigation.
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Hundred dollar bills have a hypnotic effect on a person not used to them.
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Rotation through a fourth dimension can’t affect a three-dimensional figure any more than you can shake letters off a printed page.
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“Joe, I’ve learned by bitter experience not to trust statements set off by ‘naturally,’ ‘of course,’ or ‘that goes without saying.’”
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Is it not better to be in ignorance than to believe falsely?
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Imperialism degrades both oppressor and oppressed.
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Good government grows out of the people; it cannot be handed to them.
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The arrangement, classification, and accessibility of knowledge remains in all ages the most pressing problem.
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“They’re crazy.”
“No, Meade. One such is crazy; a lot of them is a lemming death march.”
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“But that’s not possible!”
Frost looked more weary than ever. Don’t you think it is about time you stopped using that term, son?”
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Time after time he had fallen into the Cartesian fallacy, mistaking clear reasoning for correct reasoning.
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A man without cash had one arm in a sling.
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What good is the race of man? Monkeys, he thought, monkeys with a spot of poetry in them, cluttering and wasting a second-string planet near a third-string star. But sometimes they finish in style.
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