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The most exciting thing possible is actually true.
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People having religions is an insult to the universe.
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'Social justice' - the expression of universal hatred.
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The human race knows enough about thinking to prevent it.
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Human nature: vindictiveness lightly coated with dishonesty.
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In the universe there is room for an infinite series of beginnings.
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You can never possess anything finite; that only leaves the infinite.
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The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.
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Thinking in words, consciousness is behavior, experiment is measurement.
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The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.
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I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
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One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.
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In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is lucky to escape with his life.
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Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.
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Democracy: everyone should have an equal opportunity to obstruct everybody else.
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There are some things that are sure to go wrong as soon as they stop going right.
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The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.
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The human race believes in not taking its problems seriously enough to solve them.
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Society is a self-regulating mechanism for preventing the fulfilment of its members.
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The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
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Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.
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The human race wished me to accept the limitations with which it had thoughtfully provided me.
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It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.
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People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.
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People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.
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The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.
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Society is everybody's way of punishing one another because they daren't take it out on the universe.
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The perception that existence exists invalidates the normal personality, as does the imminence of death.
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When people talk about 'the sanctity of the individual' they mean 'the sanctity of the statistical norm'.
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The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Celia Green
Born:
November 26, 1935
(age 89)
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