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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

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The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

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A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

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The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.

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To be a champion you must live like one.

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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

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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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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

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Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

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The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

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Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

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