George Bernard Shaw Quotes
It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.
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It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.
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The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.
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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
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There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
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I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.
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Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.
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Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air.
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The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.
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I think people forgot that there are still ways you can get the ball inside rather than just standing there and throwing the ball in. You have to have a system that makes all things work.
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I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.
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It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.
