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Just As The Performance Of The Vilest And Most Wicked Deeds Requires Spirit And Talent, So Even The Greatest Demand A Certain Insensitivity Which Under Other Circumstances We Would Call Stupidity.

There Are People Who Believe Everything Is Sane And Sensible That Is Done With A Solemn Face. ... It Is No Great Art To Say Something Briefly When, Like Tacitus, One Has Something To Say; When One Has Nothing To Say, However, And None The Less Writes A Whole Book And Makes Truth ... Into A Liar - That I Call An Achievement.

I Have Never Yet Met Anyone Who Did Not Think It Was An Agreeable Sensation To Cut Tinfoil With Scissors.

One Should Never Trust A Person Who, While Assuring You Of Something, Puts His Hands On His Heart.

All Mathematical Laws Which We Find In Nature Are Always Suspect To Me, In Spite Of Their Beauty. They Give Me No Pleasure. They Are Merely Auxiliaries. At Close Range It Is All Not True.