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" The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. "
George Bernard Shaw
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" The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. "
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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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" No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. "
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" I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. "
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" Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. "
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" Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. "
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" What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married? "
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" The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. "
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" The love of economy is the root of all virtue. "
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" The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. "
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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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" 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. "
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" You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. "
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" We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. "
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" A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. "
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" First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. "
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" I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself. "
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" No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. "
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Always
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" If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself. "
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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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" Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability. "
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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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" It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. "
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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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" Lack of money is the root of all evil. "
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" The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. "
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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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" The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider! "
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" Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. "
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" Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. "
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