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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

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People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

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Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

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Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

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Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they

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The weak ones are there to justify the strong.

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God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.

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People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

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Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.

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