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In some respects, the life of a censor is more exhilarating than that of an emperor. The best the emperor can do is snip off the heads of men and women, who are mere mortals. The censor can decapitate ideas which but for him might have lived forever.

— Heywood Broun

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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.

The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality.

Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.

Lin Yutang in The Wisdom of China and India (1942)

Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don’t have to sew buttons.

Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations: A Collection of Approximately (2012)

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