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Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.

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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. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

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Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

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If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

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You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

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

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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

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All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

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You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

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Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

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

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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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