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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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