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“At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.”

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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

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