It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'
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Deliberate cruelty to our defenseless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.
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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'
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Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.
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A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
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Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
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Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
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What is originality Undetected plagiarism.
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There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences.
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Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
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The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
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The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.
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The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.
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