George Bernard Shaw Quotes
It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.George Bernard Shaw
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I'm looking to make history.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.
Sam Kean -
It ain't the heat, it's the humility.
Yogi Berra -
Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
Barbara Bush -
Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
A. J. Muste -
In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
Yann Martel
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
Rachel Carson -
I was born in Norfolk, Virginia. I began school there, the first year of public school. When I was 7, the family shifted back to North Carolina. I grew up in North Carolina; had my schooling through the college level in North Carolina.
Ella Baker -
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
H. L. Mencken -
He looked no different now than when I first met him (in January). He's happy and excited.
Jamie Moyer -
The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.
Pir Vilayat Khan -
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
John Locke Nazareth
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We Jews have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity.
Albert Einstein -
What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.
Epictetus -
This legislation will give miners a fighting chance to survive situations like what happened at Sago.
J. M. Roberts -
The idea that you must bathe every day is, to a certain extent, a manufacture on the part of the soap industry.
Adam Conover -
Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.
Edwin Boring -
Why? Will no man ever do something without a why? Just like that? For the hell of it?
Michael Cacoyannis
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When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.
Isaac Watts -
It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.
George Bernard Shaw