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If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. When you sling mud, you lose ground. One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear. How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. It did not last: the devil howling Ho! Let Einstein be! restored the status quo. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence. Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable. The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. Nothing great was ever acheived without enthusiasm. It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order. Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels. What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness? Experience...is simply the name we give our mistakes. It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night. I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash. Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed. The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Publish and be damned! A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. First things first, but not necessarily in that order. If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato. Do not speak ill of the dead. Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. Opposites are cures for opposites. Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live. It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world. Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets. Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. You see things, and you say Why? But I dream things that never were, and say Why not? Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear. I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me. I think it would be a good idea. Just like the falling rainbow Just like the stars in the sky Life should never feel small. My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details. A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen. Geschichte ist [...] ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. [re-transl.:] History is [...] a dialogue between the present and the past. This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them. |
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