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(1894 - 1963)
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| Advise | It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little kinder." | |
| Authorship | The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. | |
| Consistency | The only completely consistent people are the dead. | |
| Equality | That all men are created equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. | |
| Granted | Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. | |
| Happiness | I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness | |
| Hell | Maybe this world is another planet's hell. | |
| History | That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. | |
| Idealism | Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. | |
| Intellectuals | An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. | |
| Los Angeles | Thought is barred in this city of Dreadful Joy, and conversation is unkown. - (on Los Angeles) |
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