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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

This is the hardest of all to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous--a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.

During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.

To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.

1. At the rise of the hand of the policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass him or otherwise disrespect him. 2. If pedestrian obstacle your path, tootle horn melodiously. If he continue to obstacle, tootle horn vigorously and utter vocal warning such as "Hi, Hi." [...] 5. Beware of greasy corner where lurk skid demon. Cease step on, approach slowly, round cautiously, resume step on gradually.

We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.

network: anything reticulated or decussated, with interstices between the intersections

Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line And "Up-and-down" by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, I Was never deep in anything but - Wine.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything.

Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Success is 80 attitude and 20 aptitude.

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.

Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.