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People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.
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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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.
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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.
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