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Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Ceasar and Cleopatra"
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. . .
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Stan Openshaw - Doomsday

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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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