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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
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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Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.
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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
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Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours it wanders wherever your children do
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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.
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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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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.
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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.
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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
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Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.
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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.
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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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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.
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