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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

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People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

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Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.

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Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

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The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

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In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids

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