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...a victim of bad medicine, bad air, bad food, farcical education, a despicable popular culture.

— Anthony Burgess

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If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilised discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)

Few men can do more than touch the fringes of a woman's satisfaction.

The Kingdom of the Wicked (1985)

She sat shortly after, rosy-footed, in a pair of my black Charvet pajamas, sipping warm milk.

Earthly Powers (1980)

Celibacy is not merely unknown to Islam, it is unintelligible.

The Enemy in the Blanket (1958)

To impose good , whether through force or through some technique like aversion therapy, is evil. To act evilly is better than to have good imposed.

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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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