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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Ayn Rand

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruitoftheloom guys laughing at me.

Rodney Dangerfield

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Vladimir Lenin

Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.

Patrick Henry

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

Jeanne Moreau

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

Joseph Conrad

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules.

William James

The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something -- war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.

G. K. Chesterton

I think the best place to work in football is England.

Jose Mourinho

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

Dorothy Thompson

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Leo Buscaglia

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

Karl Jaspers