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A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.


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When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.




We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.



The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.



To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.




Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.



A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.



If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.

If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.



I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.





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The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.



I take pride in being very unique in what I do. Nobody else can do what I do and I don't mean to say that egotistically, it's just something in my personality.

I take pride in being very unique in what I do. Nobody else can do what I do and I don't mean to say that egotistically, it's just something in my personality.



I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon too many abandoned for the mess they made.

I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon too many abandoned for the mess they made.



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I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.



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But superstition, like belief, must die.



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I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.



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America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.



But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.

But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.



That could have been his second yellow card - if he'd already got his first one of course

That could have been his second yellow card - if he'd already got his first one of course




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