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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
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It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
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