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Author: George Bernard Shaw
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  1. George Bernard Shaw _ Androcles and the Lion

    No, really: I can't fight, I never could. I can't bring myself to dislike anyone enough.
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  2. George Bernard Shaw _ Androcles and the Lion

    The primitive idea of justice is partly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It works out from both sides in the notion that two blacks make a white, and that when a wrong has been done, it should be paid for by an equivalent suffering. It seems to the Philistine majority a matter of course that this compensating suffering should be inflicted on the wrongdoer for the sake of its deterrent effect on other would-be wrongdoers; but a moment's reflection will shew that this utilitarian application corrupts the whole transaction. For example, the shedding of blood cannot be balanced by the shedding of guilty blood. Sacrificing a criminal to propitiate God for the murder of one of his righteous servants is like sacrificing a mangy sheep or an ox with the rinderpest: it calls down divine wrath instead of appeasing it. In doing it we offer God as a sacrifice the gratification of our own revenge and the protection of our own lives without cost to ourselves; and cost to ourselves is the essence of sacrifice and expiation.
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  3. George Bernard Shaw _ Saint Joan

    O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long?
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  4. George Bernard Shaw _ Pygmalion

    the beauty and nobility, the august mission and destiny, of human handwriting.
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  5. George Bernard Shaw _ Man and Superman

    You don't get tired of muffins. But you don't find inspiration in them
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  6. George Bernard Shaw _ Getting Married

    Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
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  7. George Bernard Shaw _ Pygmalion

    MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre tempting the girl. It's not right. She should think of the future.HIGGINS. At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think of.
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  8. George Bernard Shaw _ Man and Superman

    Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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  9. George Bernard Shaw _ Man and Superman

    Not that I disclaim the fullest responsibility for his opinions and for those of all my characters, pleasant and unpleasant. They are all right from their several points of view; and their points of view are, for the dramatic moment, mine also. This may puzzle the people who believe that there is such a thing as an absolutely right point of view, usually their own.
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  10. George Bernard Shaw _ Saint Joan

    The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.
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  11. George Bernard Shaw _ Man and Superman

    The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older."
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  12. George Bernard Shaw _ Man and Superman

    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.
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