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" You cannot be a hero without being a coward. "
George Bernard Shaw
Cannot
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" If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. "
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" Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. "
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" 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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" You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. "
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" Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. "
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" Syllables govern the world. "
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" There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. "
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" Property is organized robbery. "
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" Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. "
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" Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. "
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" Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population. "
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" Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. "
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" The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. "
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" There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. "
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Man
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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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" We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. "
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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 single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. "
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" We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. "
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" The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. "
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God
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" Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. "
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" Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. "
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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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" Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes. "
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" The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. "
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Got
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" I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community. "
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" Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. "
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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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" 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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