I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

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Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

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The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.

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I am not an atheist but an earthiest.

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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

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An empty man is full of himself.

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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

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But don't get discouraged comrades. Christ failed too.

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Newstead Abbey & Ruins at Newstead, Nottingham. #ruins #newstead #abbey #nottingham #beautiful

Life: another day, another dolor.

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The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

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Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

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Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

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Life is cruel? Compared to what?

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