37 Quotes by Celia Green

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    People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.

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    The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

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    The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the face of it strange. The claims of money to be celebrated in verse might well seem to be no less than those of faithful dogs, beautiful women, or jugs of wine.

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    Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.

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    If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.

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    The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.

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    When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

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    The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus ...

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