"Ones' ego only fools its' architect"

Blum, Donald on adonybus   

"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."

Shaw, George Bernard on morality   

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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."

Shaw, George Bernard on patriotism   

"Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million."

Shaw, George Bernard on payment   

"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it."

Shaw, George Bernard on atheism
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"Property is organized robbery."

Shaw, George Bernard on property   

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"Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man."

Shaw, George Bernard on reason
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"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."

Shaw, George Bernard on reason   

"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."

Shaw, George Bernard on teacher
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"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

Shaw, George Bernard on truth
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"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."

Shaw, George Bernard on virtue   

"The worst sin... is... to be indifferent."

Shaw, George Bernard on indifference
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"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated."

Shaw, George Bernard on hatred
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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."

Shaw, George Bernard on growth
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"You are the only one thinking in your mind.."

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"The intelligence of fear rationalizes cowardice and deceit.."

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"One man's folly is often another man's wife."

Rowland, Helen on adultery
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"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

Devito, Danny on adversity
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"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."

Dune, Frank Herbert on adversity
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"Failure is success if we learn from it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on adversity
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"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."

Shaw, George Bernard on action
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"Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it."

Shaw, George Bernard on fools and foolishness   

"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."

Shaw, George Bernard on experience
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"The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business."

Shaw, George Bernard on gossip   

"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."

Shaw, George Bernard on wisdom   

"When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work."

Shaw, George Bernard on work   

"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition."

Lincoln, Abraham on worry
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"Everybody likes a compliment."

Lincoln, Abraham on compliments
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"I praise loudly, I blame softly."

Catherine II of Russia on blame
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"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."

Branden, Nathaniel on change
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."

Wilde, Oscar on loyalty
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"By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful."

Wilde, Oscar on bachelor
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"To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing."

Wilde, Oscar on socializing and socialism   

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"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on teacher
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"The truth is rarely pure, and never simple"

Wilde, Oscar on truth
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading at all."

Wilde, Oscar on reading
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"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax."

Lincoln, Abraham on work
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"Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged."

Lincoln, Abraham on work
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"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

Lincoln, Abraham on faces
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