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Paradoxes are the only truths. Paradoxes are the only truths.

George Bernard Shaw

paradoxes

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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

economics

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. - MORE I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

George Bernard Shaw

honesty

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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't wan... - MORE The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

George Bernard Shaw

anarchism

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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality. I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

George Bernard Shaw

middle class, the

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The national anthem belongs to the eighteenth century. In it you find us ordering God about to do our political dirty work. - MORE The national anthem belongs to the eighteenth century. In it you find us ordering God about to do our political dirty work.

George Bernard Shaw

British, the

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You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in... - MORE You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

George Bernard Shaw

bigotry

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The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. - MORE The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw

sin | indifference

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There is something in you that I respect, and that makes me desire to have you for my enemy. There is something in you that I respect, and that makes me desire to have you for my enemy.

George Bernard Shaw

enemies | respect

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I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

George Bernard Shaw

religion | wealth

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