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It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
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I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.
To be alive at all is to have scars.
The human is the only guilty animal.
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
