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    David Livingstone
    “If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.”
    ― David Livingstone
    tags: road
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    David Livingstone
    “I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.”
    ― David Livingstone
    tags: explorer, forward, missionary
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    David Livingstone Smith
    “Terrorism" is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by "the enemy", and from which one's own acts of destruction are exempted. It is an inchoate and emotionally laden concept, a semantic mirror of our dishonesty and a repository for everything about war that we would like to disavow. Making a sharp distinction between war and terrorism is at best a self-deceptive game.”
    ― David Livingstone Smith, The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War
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    David Livingstone Smith
    “Self-deception is an indispensable element of war, and that despite the fact that wars are calculated and planned, there is a sense in which human beings do not know what they are doing when they cut one another down on the battlefield.”
    ― David Livingstone Smith, The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War
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    Walter Bagehot
    “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
    ― Walter Bagehot
    tags: inspirational
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    Walter Bagehot
    “Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.”
    ― Walter Bagehot
    tags: life
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    Walter Bagehot
    “The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. ”
    ― Walter Bagehot
    tags: books, writing
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    Walter Bagehot
    “The soldier—that is, the great soldier—of to-day is not a romantic animal, dashing at forlorn hopes, animated by frantic sentiment, full of fancies as to a love-lady or a sovereign; but a quiet, grave man, busied in charts, exact in sums, master of the art of tactics, occupied in trivial detail; thinking, as the Duke of Wellington was said to do, most of the shoes of his soldiers; despising all manner of èclat and eloquence; perhaps, like Count Moltke, ‘silent in seven languages’.”
    ― Walter Bagehot
    tags: soldier
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    Walter Bagehot
    “The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.”
    ― Walter Bagehot
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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
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: art, life
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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
    “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Immaturity
    tags: family, humor
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
    ― Puck Magazine
    tags: misattributed-confucius, misattributed-g-b-shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: adaptation, change, open-mindedness, self-improvement
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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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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: bernard-shaw, irish, pigs, pointlessness
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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.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession
    tags: motivational, overcoming-obstacles
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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. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Androcles and the Lion
    tags: religion
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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 thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: george-bernard-shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
    tags: arrogance, ignorance, politicians, politics
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    Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
    “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: dread, liberty, responsibility
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: dance, dancing, definition, innuendo, sex, widely-misattributed, wordplay
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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 censorship.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession
    tags: censorship, free-speech, progress
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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.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: creativity
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Youth is wasted on the young.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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