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| Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. | | Uncategorized | |
| Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires | | Leadership; Politicians; Politics | |
| Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. | | Uncategorized | |
| My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully. | | Age | |
| Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. | | Fear | |
| Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. | | Uncategorized | |
| Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be. | | Uncategorized | |
| No great achievement is possible without persistent work. | | Persistence | |
| No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value. | | Education; Teachers and teaching | |
| No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest. | | Uncategorized | |
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| No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful? | | Uncategorized | |
| None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. | | Uncategorized | |
| Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile. | | Choice | |
| Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. | | Elderly | |
| Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. | | Caution; Happiness; Love | |
| On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge | | Knowledge; Philosophy | |
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| One occasion for theological intervention to prevent the mitigation of human suffering was the discovery of anesthetics | | Uncategorized | |
