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During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

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That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

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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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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

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I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.

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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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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

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The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

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Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

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No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

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