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Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation. One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? The man for whom law exists - the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man. Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital. Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds. Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty--power is ever stealing from the many to the few. Give me an incubator or give me death! A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman. There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame. Simplicity is the peak of civilization. Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. [The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels! Food is the most primitive form of comfort. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.Bertrand RussellBritish author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) All things must change to something new, to something strange. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. Music has charms to soothe the savage breast Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. [Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket. A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. The body is a sacred garment. Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. The crowd gives the leader new strength. If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. I am at two with nature. Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. Anything you fully do is an alone journey. |
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