George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
George Bernard Shaw
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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays.
Francis Bacon
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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
Francis Bacon
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Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.
William Shakespeare
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Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses toward certain facts, events, necessities, etc., the purpose being to move their importance into the masses' field of vision.
Adolf Hitler
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Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.
Randy Travis
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Soul ain't nothing but a feeling.
Wilson Pickett
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Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.
Uzodinma Iweala
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
Tammy Baldwin
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Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial sway - which was attuned to furnish the raw materials for the British manufacturing ascendance. So they were mutually reinforcing.
Charles R. Morris
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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
George Bernard Shaw