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| William Shakespeare | | To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. | |
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| William Shakespeare | | Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. | |
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| William Shakespeare | | The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. | |
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| William Shakespeare | | Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous. | |
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| William Shakespeare | | The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. | |
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| William Shakespeare | | No legacy is so rich as honesty. | |
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| William Shakespeare | | If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. | |
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| William Shakespeare | | To willful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters. | |
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| William Shakespeare | | With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. | |
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| William Shakespeare | | True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. | |
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| William Shakespeare | | When the mind's free,
The body's delicate. | |
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| William Shakespeare | | So every bondman in his own hand bear\\
The power to cancel his captivity. | |
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| William Shakespeare | | True nobility is exempt from fear. | |
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| Assata Shakur | | Freedom? you asking me about freedom? you asking me about freedom? I’ll be honest with you, I know a whole lot more, about what freedom isn’t than what it is ... | |
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| Angel Shamaya | | Liberty's view of the government could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it works, work with it. If it doesn't, work against it. If it works you over, abolish it. | |
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| Adi Shankaracharya | | Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation. | |
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| Albert Shanker | | When school children start paying union dues,
that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children. | |
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| Albert Shanker | | It is time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy. It's a bureaucratic system where everybody's role is spelled out in advance, and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's not a surprise when a school system doesn't improve. It more resembles a Communist economy than our own market economy. | |
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| James Shapiro | | The capacity of living organisms to alter their own heredity is undeniable. Our current ideas about evolution have to incorporate this basic fact of life. | |
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| James Shapiro | | Cells constantly adjust their metabolism to available nutrients, control their progress through their cell cycle to make sure that all progeny are complete at the time of division, repair damage as it occurs, and interact appropriately with other cells. In a multicellular context, they even undergo programmed cell death when suicide is beneficial to the entire population or to the multicellular organism as a whole. | |
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| Jack Sharp | | Can you imagine working at the following Company? It has a little over 500 employees with the following statistics: 29 have been accused of spousal abuse. 7 have been arrested for fraud. 19 have been accused of writing bad checks. 117 have bankrupted at least two businesses. 3 have been arrested for assault. 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit. 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges. 8 have been arrested for shoplifting. 21 are current defendants in law suits. 84 were stopped for drunk driving in 1998 alone. Can you guess which organization this is? Give up? It's the 535 members of your United States Congress. The same group that perpetually cranks out hundreds upon hundreds of new laws designed to keep the rest of us in line. | |
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| Travis Sharp | | GDP is an important metric for determining how much the United States could afford to spend on defense, but it provides no insight into how much the United States should spend. Defense planning is a matter of matching limited resources to achieve carefully scrutinized and prioritized objectives. When there are more threats, a nation spends more. When there are fewer threats, it spends less. As threats evolve, funding should evolve along with them. ... Unfortunately, setting defense spending at four percent of GDP would shield the Pentagon from careful scrutiny and curtail a much-needed transparent national debate. | |
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| John Shattuck | | In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century’s wars combined. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | You have to choose [as a voter] between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | Marx’s Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for it's own sake. Life is no "brief candle" to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | Socialism means equality of income or nothing... under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | Lack of money is the root of all evil. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | All great truths began as blasphemies. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. | |
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| George Bernard Shaw | | The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essense of inhumanity. | |