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Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
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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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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In the arts of life main invents nothing but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.
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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.
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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
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Get out of my way for I won't stop for you.
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
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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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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.
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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
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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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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.
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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
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