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Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.

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Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

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Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

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Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different.

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"Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. "

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I base most of my fashion sense on whether or not it itches.

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Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.

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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

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If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

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