George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.
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I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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He who is contented is rich.
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Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
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As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.
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Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it and you might as well use it. You're privileged to be at Yale, but you know you're under an obligation to repay what's been put into you.
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After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.
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This is my sadness for shooting my friend
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It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.
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And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.
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Countries have improved since SARS. They understand the importance of responding and being as prompt and transparent as possible.
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It's hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That's what I find really hard. And didn't really consider it. It was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life.
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The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.
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My wife has cut our lovemaking down to once a month, but I know two guys she's cut out entirely.
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Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.
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It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.
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The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.
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Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.
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We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.
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Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.
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Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.
