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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not. I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. The gods too are fond of a joke. He was a wise man who invented God. Wit is educated insolence. Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done. People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it. The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing. I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive? Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should. Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less. I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout. We will occasionally use this arrow notation unless there is danger of no confusion. The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. Read my lips--NO NEW TAXES! The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. A witty saying proves nothing. There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third. Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. Santa Claus had the right idea. Visit everyone once a year. Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed. Blessed be the meek, for they shall inherit six feet of the earth. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? Come quickly, I am tasting stars! |
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