I want to reassure you I am not this size, really - dear me no, I'm being amplified by the mike.


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When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his li...
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally t...
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the ...
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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate ...
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People generally quarrel because they can't argue.
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There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
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Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones ...
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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on all men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that f...
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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really ...
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man ...
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross i...
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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can...
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul
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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he h...
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's wha...
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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and t...
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's ow...
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer b...
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones ...
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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might...
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If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
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Every man is important is he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to r...
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may ...
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Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly c...
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"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate...
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Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate...
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
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Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy ...
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The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens...
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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uni...
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There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points,...
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