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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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done- of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time.
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To me, defense is a mental attitudeit takes will and heart to go out there and lock your man up.
