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Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

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Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

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Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

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Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

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