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The criminal law is no use to decent people.
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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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
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Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
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Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.
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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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