When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWA pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
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Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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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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When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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There is always danger for those who are afraid.
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Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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A drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
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In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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