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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
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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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams but I look after the drainage.
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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.
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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.
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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.
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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.
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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.
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A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
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Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.
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