"Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time."
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"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.“
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"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest."
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"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
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"Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning."
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"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
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"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."
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"God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God."
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"My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true."
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"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."
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"Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline."
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"It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core."
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