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A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin.

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Unionism seldom if ever uses such powers as it has to ensure better work almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that all knowledge is moonshine.
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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
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