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" What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods. "

George Bernard Shaw

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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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" Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. "

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" Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. "

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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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" The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. "

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" Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. "

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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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" 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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" A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. "

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" The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. "

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" When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. "

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