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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves. (George Bernard Shaw)
If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this God is. View quote
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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second if there is one. View quote
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Mark Twain and I are in the same position. We have put things in such a way as to make people, who would otherwise hang us, believe that we are joking. View quote
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The true joy of life is being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap ... being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances. View quote
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Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. View quote
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The true joy in life is being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. View quote
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The seven deadly sins... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. View quote
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My mother married a very good man . . . and she is not at all keen on my doing the same. View quote
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Woman reduces us all to a common denominator. View quote
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them. (George Bernard Shaw)
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. View quote
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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties. View quote
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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbours no harm. View quote
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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred. View quote
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The nation's morals are like its teeth the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. View quote
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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis. View quote
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I am a sort of collector of religions and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all. View quote
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There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory.. For without that you cannot be born again. View quote
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The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him there. View quote
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious. (George Bernard Shaw)
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honour, generosity and beauty.... Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people. View quote
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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common curemongering witchcraft. View quote
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Science is always simple and profound. It is only half truths that are dangerous. View quote
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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries. View quote
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