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H L Mencken
: Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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According to Eshin's "Essentials of Salvation," the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.
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Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.
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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.
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If lawyers had been present on Mount Sinai, the Ten Commandments would have twelve hundred amendments, all summing to the conclusion: The rich may ignore the rules, the poor will be hanged if they violate the smallest subordinate clause.
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If I had had my way the English would not have got off so lightly at Dunkirk. But my hands were tied by direct orders from Hitler himself. While the English were clambering into the ships off the beaches, I was kept uselessly outside the port unable to move. I recommended to the Supreme Command that my five Panzer divisions be immediately sent into the town and thereby completely destroy the retreating English. But I received definite orders from the Führer that under no circumstances was I to attack, and I was expressly forbidden to send any of my troops closer than ten kilometres from Dunkirk. At this distance I sat outside the town watching the English escape, while my tanks and infantry were prohibited from moving. This incredible blunder was due to Hitler's personal idea of generalship.
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When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.
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Charles A Stoddard :
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When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.
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The church has stood, a rock colossus of bigotry, in the path of ten thousand proposed reforms. Sane efforts to legalize birth control information, the manufacture of proper birth control appliances, appliances for the inhibition of the spread of venereal disease, public instruction in sex hygiene, free clinics for the treatment of venereal disease, the inspection and treatment of prostitutes, controlled prostitution itself, the publication of psychological and physical sex information, aid for unwed mothers—myriad attempts by sane men acting sanely on real problems—have been fought down by church-frightened legislatures and church-dominated courts.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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