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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty. (George Bernard Shaw)
The road to ignorance is paved with good editors. View quote
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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. View quote
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Syllables govern the world. View quote
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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English. View quote
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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn. View quote
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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. View quote
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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. View quote
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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it. View quote
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying. View quote
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My reputation grows with every failure. (George Bernard Shaw)
You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold. View quote
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. View quote
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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person's thumb are two different things. View quote
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I do not know what I think until I write it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. View quote
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. View quote
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. View quote
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. View quote
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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. (George Bernard Shaw)
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal. View quote
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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. View quote
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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? View quote
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