George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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My first car was a motorcycle.
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Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
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Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
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If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.
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We are removing the most important cultural roadblock to accepting the role of God as creator.
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I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable.
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Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.
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You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the whole reason you're on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable. The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.
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It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans in social media than it is to communicate complex policies.
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Clearly, it's going to affect the Gulf Coast economy quite a bit.
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Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.
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By some mysterious reason, there is no difficulty for a man in illtreating a woman, and this is something amazing. Everybody loves his mother, sisters and relatives etc, but still, with all this there is this callous attitude and ill-treatment of women. So women's movements are necessary. One thing which is forgotten in India is the transformation of the attitude of men. It is in this field that active work has to be done. We all preach to women that they should assert themselves. But on the other hand we don't tell sufficient early, strongly, to the male that they should behave well, their attitude should change. I have no doubt that even the women's reservation [bill] will be finally adopted.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.
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It's up to [Angela Merkel] whether she wants to stand again and then ultimately, it'll be up to the German people to decide what the future holds. If I were here and I were German and I had a vote, I might support her.
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One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ability may well have been based on their use of horseshoes.
