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    Agatha Christie
    “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
    ― Agatha Christie
    tags: inspirational
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    Agatha Christie
    “A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

    -The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Hound of Death and Other Stories
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
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    Richard M. Nixon
    “If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.”
    ― Richard Nixon
    tags: analogy, harmony, integration, music
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    Henry Kissinger
    “There can't be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.”
    ― Henry Kissinger
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    Henry Kissinger
    “Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.”
    ― Henry Kissinger
    tags: corruption, dishonesty, politics
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    Henry Kissinger
    “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”
    ― Henry Kissinger
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    Charles Manson
    “You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.”
    ― Charles Manson
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
    tags: inspirational
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Music in London
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska the Bolshevik Empress
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

    [From the will of GBS]”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: blood-sacrifice, commemoration, cross, denomination, evolution, monument, religious-convictions, ritual, science, scientific, sermon, service, tenets, torture, views
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
    tags: art, reminding
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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 can read."

    [As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: books, censorship, reading
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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.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: anti-patriotism, identity, nation, nationalism, politics
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Blaise Pascal
    “I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

    (Letter 16, 1657)”
    ― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters
    tags: brevity, conciseness, correspondence, humor, letters, pithy, wit, writing
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza
    tags: temptation-apple-cart-shaw-1930
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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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.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: desire, life, lost, paradox, tragedy
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    William Shakespeare
    “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: destiny
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    William Shakespeare
    “You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
    tags: insults, shakespeare
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    William Shakespeare
    “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.”
    ― La Rochefoucauld
    tags: honesty, sincerity
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
    116 likes



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