George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
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I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I've been with my husband and friends for so long, I've forgotten what is unappealing to new people.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I have found that she is as kind and caring a person as she is hilarious. Simply put, Amy Poehler is my hero.
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We pursue that which retreats from us.
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The party has to be much more. It has to connect in a real way with rank-and-file members and be their voice.
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One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.
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One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
