George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.George Bernard Shaw
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
Vicente Fox -
Robots are good at things that are structured.
Vijay Kumar -
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.
Ian MacKaye -
Everything begins with an idea.
Earl Nightingale -
You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
Rand Paul -
When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
Dalton Trumbo -
There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
Laura Carmichael -
My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
Karl Shapiro -
Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
Ja Rule -
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?
Abraham Lincoln -
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.
FKA twigs
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
Patrick deWitt -
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.
Nate Powell -
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Abigail Adams -
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.
Patricia McBride -
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.
Tariq Ramadan -
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch
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On Dick Cheney's Halliburton severance package He's a guy who's in charge of determining our energy policy, and he's doing it with $31 million of oil company money in his pocket. Is anybody fucking home?
Lewis Black -
I don't want to bring negative energy to myself, and if people feel one way about me, I don't want that changing how I feel or what I believe.
Marley Dias -
'I haven't done enough. I don't have solar panels on my house yet. I haven't sorted out the heating, my car's not a Prius, I f--ing fly all the time for my job and I hate it but at the moment I haven't really got a choice, you know, and all these things. The job I'm in is a job that wastes energy left, right and centre. It's madness.' source
Thom Yorke Radiohead -
Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
This is the state of all creatures, whether men or angels; as they make not themselves, so they enjoy nothing from themselves; if they are great, it must be only as great receivers of the gifts of God; their power can only be so much of the divine power acting in them; their wisdom can be only so much of the divine wisdom shining within them; and their light and glory, only so much of the light and glory of God shining upon them.
William Law -
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
George Bernard Shaw