George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.
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What the divine author of the Mahabharata said of his great creation is equally true of Hinduism. Whatever of substance is contained in any other religion is always to be found in Hindusim, and what is not contained in it is insubstantial or unnecessary.
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My own experience but confirms the opinion that the Musalman as a rule is a bully, and the Hindu as rule is a coward.
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My mother was a gorgeous person with no vanity, but she was a really good soul.
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While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit.
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If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.
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A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
