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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.
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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The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
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The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
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My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.
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Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.
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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
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