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Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.

Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved , as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

If everything's under control, you're going too slow.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. - The Deer Park.

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

We often despise what is most useful to us.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

Example is the best precept.