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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
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Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
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Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.
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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget.
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
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