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" The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. "
George Bernard Shaw
Know
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People
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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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" Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. "
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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 see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' "
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" The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. "
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" Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. "
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" I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. "
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" The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. "
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" The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. "
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" I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist. "
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" Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. "
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Else
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" Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. "
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World
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" It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right. "
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" It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. "
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You
Unless
" 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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My Life
Life
" Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. "
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Time
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" Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. "
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Only
Find
" I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. "
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" In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. "
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" The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. "
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Worst
Sin
" Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. "
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Miracle
Life
Hand
" A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. "
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