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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

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The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 12th, 1880

Died: January 29th, 1956

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