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There Is, However, One Other Human Right Which Is Infrequently Mentioned But Which Seems To Be Destined To Become Very Important: This Is The Right, Or The Duty, Of The Individual To Abstain From Cooperating In Activities Which He Considers Wrong Or Pernicious.

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There Is, However, One Other Human Right Which Is Infrequently Mentioned But Which Seems To Be Destined To Become Very Important: This Is The Right, Or The Duty, Of The Individual To Abstain From Cooperating In Activities Which He Considers Wrong Or Pernicious.

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If You Can't Explain Something Simply, You Don't Know Enough About It.

The High Destiny Of The Individual Is To Serve Rather Than To Rule.

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The Devil Has Put A Penalty On All Things We Enjoy In Life. Either We Suffer In Our Health, Or We Suffer In Our Soul, Or We Get Fat.

Every Age Has Its Beautiful Moments.

I Do Not Believe That Civilization Will Be Wiped Out In A War Fought With The Atomic Bomb. Perhaps Two-thirds Of The People Of The Earth Will Be Killed.

Private Capitalists Inevitably Control, Directly Or Indirectly, The Main Sources Of Information. It Is Thus Extremely Difficult, And Indeed In Most Cases Quite Impossible, For The Individual Citizen To Come To Objective Conclusions And To Make Intelligent Use Of His Political Rights.

Capitalism Has Brought With It Progress, Not Merely In Production But Also In Knowledge.

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Rejoice With Your Family In The Beautiful Land Of Life.

Politics Is A Pendulum Whose Swings Between Anarchy And Tyranny Are Fueled By Perennially Rejuvenated Illusions.

You Cannot Beat A Roulette Table Unless You Steal Money From It.

There Is No Salvation For Civilization, Or Even The Human Race, Other Than The Creation Of A World Government.

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It Is Important To Foster Individuality, For Only The Individual Can Produce The New Ideas.

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The Stupid Are Invincible.

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An Expert Is A Person Who Has Few New Ideas; A Beginner Is A Person With Many.

Princeton Is A Wonderful Little Spot. A Quaint And Ceremonious Village Of Puny Demigods On Stilts.

I Cannot Conceive Of A God Who Rewards And Punishes His Creatures, Or Has A Will Of The Type Of Which We Are Conscious In Ourselves. An Individual Who Should Survive His Physical Death Is Also Beyond My Comprehension, Nor Do I Wish It Otherwise; Such Notions Are For The Fears Or Absurd Egoism Of Feeble Souls.

... One Does People The Best Service By Giving Them Some Elevating Work To Do And Thus Indirectly Elevating Them.

To Invent Something, All You Need Is Imagination And A Big Pile Of Junk.

The World We Have Created Is A Product Of Our Thinking.

It Is Not So Very Important For A Person To Learn Facts. For That He Does Not Really Need A College. He Can Learn Them From Books. The Value Of An Education In A Liberal Arts College Is Not Learning Of Many Facts But The Training Of The Mind To Think Something That Cannot Be Learned From Textbooks.

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