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" There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. "
George Bernard Shaw
Who
Man
Object
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" I'm an atheist and I thank God for it. "
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" I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. "
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" Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. "
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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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Line
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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 liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. "
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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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" An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. "
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" Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. "
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" If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. "
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End
" 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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" Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying. "
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" You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. "
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You
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" The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. "
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Progress
Removal
First
" There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. "
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Better
Everybody
" Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. "
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Society
Poverty
Questions
" Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. "
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Said
Right
Never
" Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. "
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You
Virtues
" We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. "
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Wisdom
Responsibility
Future
" It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. "
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Broken
Happiness
Heart
" A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. "
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Art
Brain
Education
" It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. "
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Statistics
Intelligent
Intelligence
" When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. "
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Tiger
Wants
He
" Property is organized robbery. "
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Property
Robbery
Organized
" We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. "
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Years
Justify
Existence
" 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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Sea
People
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I Am
Strong
" Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. "
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