George Bernard Shaw Quotes
You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.
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Let's make Jeb Bush explain his plan to give millionaires another massive tax cut.
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Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.
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Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.
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So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
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My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.
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If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.
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No matter what, our American Army is so big, and we are so very thankful to them.
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It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.
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I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.
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The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.
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Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.
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Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.
