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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
 
Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.
 
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
 
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. 
 
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
 
CONSERVATIVE: A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
 
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
 
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
 
The artist . . . can leave a great many of the most fundamental aspects of culture to be picked up not from his actual words, but from his emphasis. [He can] group and stress [words] so that the reader almost unconsciously receives information which is not explicit in the sentences and which the artist would find it hard - almost impossible - to express in analytic terms. This impressionistic technique is utterly foreign to the methods of science.
 
Women are meant to be loved....not to be understood.
 
The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people.
 
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've propbably misunderstood what I've said.
 
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
 
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
 
The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.
 
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
 
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
 
The object of education ought not to be to make all men think alike, but to make each think in the way which is the fullest expression of his own.
 
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
 
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
 
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