George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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My health is fine.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.
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Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
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Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!" "Nah," Martin said. "She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents told us what they really think about stuff, we could figure them out like regular people.
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The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle-an architect.
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Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
