Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Funny
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...with the black marble which gives the fireplace the air of a miniature family vault, to suggest early Victorian commercial respectability, belief in money, Bible fetichism, fear of hell always at war with fear of poverty, instinctive horror of the passionate character of art, love and Roman Catholic religion, and all the first fruits of plutocracy in the early generations of the industrial revolution.
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
Funny
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
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He who has never hoped can never despair.
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.
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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
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