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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will ...more

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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

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It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; i...more

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It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That...more

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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have...more