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"Just as work is the curse of the drinking classes of this country," [Wilde] said laughing, "so education is the curse of the acting classes."

— Frank Harris Oscar Wilde (1916)

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Happiness is not essential to the artist; happiness never creates anything but memories.

Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind.

Christ goes deeper than I do, but I have had a wider experience.

Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932)

Casanova! My dear man, Casanova is not worthy to untie my bootstrings!

A. I. Tobin and Elmer Gertz Frank Harris: A Study in Black and White (1931)

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

George Jean Nathan The World of George Jean Nathan (1952)

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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.

Julian Assange

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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