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.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
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Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
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I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.
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Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
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If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.
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I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.
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I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it.
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I think sexiness in most people - and this is going to sound superficial - is definitely something you don't plan.
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Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.
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There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.
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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays.
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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.
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Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.
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Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
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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.
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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.
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CSPS is a breath of musical fresh air. With a whale sized hooks and neck wrenching riffs you’ll have more than you need to fall head first into this band’s fanbase. Take a listen and see what all the fuss is about. I’m sure that if the bone tight rhythm section doesn’t lock you in, the finely spun lyric and melody will surely ensnare even the pickiest of musical palette.
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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
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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.
