George Bernard Shaw Quotes
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus
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Taking advantage of someone in return for work is the most disgusting thing ever.
Salman Khan
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When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
Christina Aguilera
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The thing about online gambling is that it's never away, it's always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it's designed to take advantage of that.
Ben Affleck
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
Auguste Renoir
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Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.
Walt Disney
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An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it.
Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
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Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the caffeine that is in many of them. Caffeine is a weak diuretic that causes calcium loss via the kidneys.
Neal Barnard
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You have to remember where all this dust is coming from, ... There is a political advantage to the opposition to have this happen.
Dennis Hastert
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I hope so. We've got a measure in front of us that we have to step up to and try to regain some kind of composure and some kind of home-court advantage.
Phil Jackson
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American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.
Emilio Pucci
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It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
Ernest Hemingway
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For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is to bee interpreted; and they that insist upon single Texts, without considering the main Designe, can derive no thing from them clearly; but rather by casting atomes of Scripture, as dust before mens eyes, make everything more obscure than it is; an ordinary artifice of those who seek not the truth, but their own advantage.
Thomas Hobbes
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Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.
Albert Einstein
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
Epictetus
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
William Hazlitt
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It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.
William Hazlitt
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That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.
Michael Morpurgo
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I don't think I'm really interested in having a celebrity relationship. The music is the most important thing.
Alex Parks
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My first job has been to do the best thing for the Bosnian people. Not for the Serbs, the Bosniaks or Croats, but the people as a whole.
Paddy Ashdown
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The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.
Seth Godin
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Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.
Terence McKenna
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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
George Bernard Shaw