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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
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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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
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I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.
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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
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When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.
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