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  • I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Work Quotes
  • Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , God Quotes , Work Quotes
  • We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Work Quotes , Book Quotes
  • To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Crush Quotes , Work Quotes