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" My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion. "

George Bernard Shaw

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" Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. "

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" If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it. "

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" I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. "

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" We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be. "

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" Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. "

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

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" If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it. "

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