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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. (George Bernard Shaw)
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. View quote
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. View quote
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. View quote
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. View quote
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Life is not meant to be easy, my son, but take courage it can be delightful. View quote
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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. View quote
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When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth. View quote
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Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. View quote
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The man who listens to Reason is lost Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her. View quote
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All progress means war with society. (George Bernard Shaw)
The only person who behaves sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. All the rest go on with their old measurements. View quote
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He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. View quote
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You dont learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself. View quote
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. View quote
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. View quote
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. View quote
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I began as a passion and ended as a habit, like all husbands. View quote
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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else. View quote
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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve. View quote
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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again. (George Bernard Shaw)
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of. View quote
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it. View quote
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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing. View quote
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The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parent's first duty. View quote
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