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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.
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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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
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If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.
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All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of Orthodoxy, True and False and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
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