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It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
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You see, I divide men into three categories: those who have a lot of money, those who have none at all and those who have a little. The first want to keep what they have: their interest is to maintain order; the second want to take what they do not have: their interest is to destroy the existing order and to establish one which is profitable to them. They each are realist, people with whom one can agree. The third group want to overthrow the social order to take what they do not have, while still preserving it so that no one takes away what they have. Thus, they preserve in fact what they destroy in theory, or they destroy in fact what they seem to preserve. Those are the idealists.
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Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
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There is no excuse for not writing letters. My mother used to say: "Don't tell me you have no time to write to someone who is waiting."
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To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.
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By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.
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One of those leaders of what they call the social revolution has said that religion is the opiate of the people. Opium, opium, opium, yes. Let us give them opium so that they can sleep and dream.
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