I'm terrified that the roofer is going to fall, but that miserable man hasn't yet!
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Forthrightness: I never gossip about anyone; I just say what I think.
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The locust is not an Egyptian plague; locusts are an Egyptian plague, because there are so many of them. It's the same with stupid people.
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Nationalist: To hell with the nation; for us it's only about its prestige.
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Economist: Today's outlook is horrible; it's because the economy's not being run by my theories.
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To hell with the nation; for us it's only about its prestige.
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Captain of Industry: I work to earn my living; but what robust work! and what a robust life!
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I am one hundred percent convinced...
Sir, couldn't you discount that a bit?
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Caiaphas' Thoughts: I would like to know who that Nazarene was paid by, and how much.
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My cousin is a bastard, but it's an insult to our family honor if someone else says so.
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To criticize is to convince the author that he's not doing it the way I would have done it if I had done it.
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One of the greatest horrors of civilization: the educated fool.
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Even the revolutionary spirit has its pedantry.
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Wise is our speech: it makes a fundamental distinction between "I am convinced" and "I have convinced."
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Better to abide the official instead of his platitudes.
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Religious fundamentalism: Who is not with me is against me. Political fundamentalism: Who is not with me is rabble.
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In the debate: What is it to me what's right if I'm not?
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Only a few people struggle for prestige; most of them have it.
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The age of machines: replacing purpose with speed.
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Imagine the silence if people only said what they knew!
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Nature created struggle, but man created hatred.
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I'll never change again, said the stump.
LN, 12 February 1933
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