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Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.


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In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.



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One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.



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Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.



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There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.



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The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.





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