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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only read more

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Chess Quotes,
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My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better read more

My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarf's in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Death Quotes,
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We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Faith Quotes,
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have
only shifted it to another shoulder.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have
only shifted it to another shoulder.

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It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that read more

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Opposites Quotes,
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