"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.“
-George Bernard Shaw
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"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."
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"The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."
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"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all."
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"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
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"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
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"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society."
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"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
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"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
-Barney Frank
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