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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw
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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
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All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.
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The harder I work the more I live.
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Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
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Activity is the only road to knowledge.
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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.
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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.
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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
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Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
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