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An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.

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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.

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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

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Success covers a multitude of blunders.

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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

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He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

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I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

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What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

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From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

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Whisky is liquid sunshine.

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

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The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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