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I'm sorry this letter is so long, I didn't have time to make it shorter. - Author object (95)

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. - Author object (95)

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it. - Author object (95)

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner; Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. - Author object (95)

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - Author object (95)

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.... - Author object (95)

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. - Author object (95)

War does not decide who is right but who is left. - Author object (95)

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - Author object (95)

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life. - Author object (95)

Whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves, and wiser people are full of doubts. - Author object (95)

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. - Author object (95)

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. - Author object (95)

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. - Author object (95)

The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - Author object (95)

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.... - Author object (95)

In heaven an angel is no one in particular. - Author object (95)

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. - Author object (95)

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - Author object (95)

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. - Author object (95)