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" The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. "
George Bernard Shaw
Office
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" The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. "
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" Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population. "
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" Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. "
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" Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. "
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" England and America are two countries separated by the same language. "
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" A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. "
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" Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. "
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" The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. "
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" Syllables govern the world. "
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" You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' "
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" Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. "
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" A happy family is but an earlier heaven. "
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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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" Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. "
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" A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. "
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" The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. "
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" Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none. "
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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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Happy
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" Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. "
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" No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. "
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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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" Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. "
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