George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.
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Jesus is coming again within the next two years.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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Britain needs a tough, strong financial conduct regulator.
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You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
