Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWI’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
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You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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