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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

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Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

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You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

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Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

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Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

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