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" Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God. "

George Bernard Shaw

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" The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. "

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" The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. "

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" There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. "

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" There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. "

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" The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. "

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" Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. "

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" Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. "

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" All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. "

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" Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. "

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" The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. "

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" One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. "

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" I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. "

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" In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present. "

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" We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. "

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" Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. "

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