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    No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

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Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

by Eric Hoffer Found in: Society Quotes,
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Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

by Robert Heinlein Found in: Society Quotes,
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Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.

by Daniel Greenberg Found in: Society Quotes,
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You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.

by Brock Chisolm Found in: Society Quotes,
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Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a read more

Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God." This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.

by Thomas Sowell Found in: Society Quotes,
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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer read more

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

by Thomas Szasz Found in: Society Quotes,
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There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

by Francis Bacon Found in: Society Quotes,
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

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Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is read more

Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene they could never have dared to be great.

by Havelock Ellis Found in: Society Quotes,
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