George Bernard Shaw Quotes
No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
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Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.
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You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.
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I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.
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Manufacturers and sellers acting within the law should not be held responsible for the actions of criminals who misuse their products.
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Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.
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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame…
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The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.
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For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.
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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
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It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.
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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.
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Everyday is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.
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The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!
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Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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Live life for the moment, because everything else is uncertain.
