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To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Topic: Fantasy
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Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as "bad luck.".
Topic: Finance and Economics
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The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
Topic: Finance and Economics
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A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
Topic: Future
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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
Topic: Inspirational
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Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
Topic: Learning
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If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.
Topic: Politics / Government
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A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright.
Topic: Politics / Government
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No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.
Topic: Politics / Government
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Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
Topic: Politics / Government
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There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
Topic: Politics / Government
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Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
Topic: Politics / Government
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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Topic: Politics / Government
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Beauty is not diminished by being shared.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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...brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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Avoid making irrevocable decisions when tired or hungry.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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The three-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion- in the long run, these are the only people who count.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
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Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.
Topic: Society
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In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is never to let them find out.
Topic: Society
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A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual"- find out how he feels about astrology.
Topic: Society
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Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.
Topic: Society
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One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
Topic: Society
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Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Topic: Society
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Topic: Society
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Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
Topic: Society
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Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
Topic: Society
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Specialization is for insects.
Topic: Society
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If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
Topic: Society
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
Topic: Society
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The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
Topic: Society
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To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Topic: World
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