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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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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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I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.

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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

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Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

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

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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

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

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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

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The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.

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