George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Life starts at conception and must be protected from the first moment.
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The fastest way for you to succeed is by piggy-backing on the good advice and counsel of men and women who have already spent years leaning how to succeed. When you do this on a regular and systematic basis, you will open up doors of opportunity and possibilities for you that today you cannot even imagine.
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I've said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know ... I do not believe she went to hell.
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Passion is born of vague hopes.
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Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.
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The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.
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What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.
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Christian worship must contain both the cross and the crown. Sing of majesty, and sing of mercy.
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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
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The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.
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I have confidence in my game. I can get up and run the floor to the best of my ability, and above all, I'm going to play my hardest.
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Significance is sweet.
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Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When one does a good thing, it's well to keep it to show how foolish we are at other times.
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We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.
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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
