I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
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Why did it occur to anyone to believe in only one God? And conversely why did it ever occur to anyone to believe in many gods? To both these questions we must return the same answer: Because that is how the human mind happens to work. For the human mind is both diverse and simple, simultaneously many and one. We have an immediate perception of our own diversity and of that of the outside world. And at the same time we have immediate perceptions of our own oneness.
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We enjoy thoroughly only the pleasure that we give.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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The mock authoritative manner of the one, and the insipid mirth of the other.
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Our situation, the human situation, is, in the final analysis, neither grim nor meaningful but funny. The wisest people are the clowns.
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Man's excellence lies in his readiness to let others live and lay down his own life. As he progresses, his food also changes for the better. He has the capacity to grow still further. There have been many more discoveries after Darwin' s. The book which you have been reading seems to be an old one. Whether it is old or new, the "Principle of the greatest good of the greatest number," or "survival of the fittest" is false.
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Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
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There was reality and there was reality; and some things were more real than others.
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