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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
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It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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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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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
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You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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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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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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