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" Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! "
George Bernard Shaw
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" I'm an atheist and I thank God for it. "
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" What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. "
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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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" Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. "
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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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" 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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" What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married? "
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" A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes. "
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" The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person. "
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" Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him. "
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" There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. "
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" The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against 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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" If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all. "
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" Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. "
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" Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. "
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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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" 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. "
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" A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. "
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" Syllables govern the world. "
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" The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. "
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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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