George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Dirty Quotes, Long Ago Quotes

The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Long Ago Quotes , Gone Quotes

Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Long Ago Quotes , Class Quotes

But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.

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Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

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She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Believe Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Horse Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

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I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Long Ago Quotes , Order Quotes

We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , War Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad but true that physics has irretrievably fallen apart from a cohesive to a fragmented discipline. ... It was not that long ago that people were complaining about two cultures. If we only had it that good. today.

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If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

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If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

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If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself.

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For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

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Tags : Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes and have returned to relying on the individual, on individual freedom, individual initiative, individual creativity.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Creativity Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Passion Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?

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I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.

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Tags : Adam Hochschild Quotes , Mother Quotes , Long Ago Quotes