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Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit that he was a first-rate political economist. (George Bernard Shaw)
Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e. View quote
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation. View quote
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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race. View quote
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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor. View quote
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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten. View quote
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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. View quote
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When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones. View quote
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People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person. View quote
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference to be in hell is to drift to be in heaven is to steer. View quote
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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often. (George Bernard Shaw)
I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen. View quote
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Morality is not respectability. View quote
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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows. View quote
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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical. View quote
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Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young. View quote
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million. View quote
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All problems are finally scientific problems. View quote
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I never expect a soldier to think. View quote
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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything. View quote
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so. (George Bernard Shaw)
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to live in a stationary one and do without change. View quote
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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman. View quote
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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games i. View quote
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Golf is typical capitalist lunacy. View quote
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