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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

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The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. Funny

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Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. Funny

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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. Funny

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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

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Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

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That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

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He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!

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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.

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Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.

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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

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Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

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The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

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When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

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You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. Business

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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

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The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

By George Bernard Shaw