George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
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As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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We as a nation have no choice but to conserve fuel to the best of our abilities or be prepared for harsh measures like steep price increase, if the need so arises.
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Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.
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Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.
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The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.
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Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.
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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
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I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
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I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.
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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Since we cannot know too much about the long term effects of our particular lives, and since success and fame are not good measures of the value of what we have done, it should be enough for any of us that as far as we can tell, in some small way we have made humanity's future better rather than worse.
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People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.
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That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.
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Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
