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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

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The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

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Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

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I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

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All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

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