George Bernard Shaw Quotes
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
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The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.
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The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.
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That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction.
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Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
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The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out. The genius of the Führer and his determination not to shun even a world war have again won victory without the use of force. The hope remains that the incredulous, the weak and the doubters have been converted and will remain that way.
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I lost a great uncle in World War II who was with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
