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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.