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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
Doe

"You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself."

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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
Doe

"If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them."

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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
Doe

"When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars."

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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
Doe

"They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank."

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Doe

"Like on the airlines, they say they want to 'pre-board'. Well, what the hell is 'pre board'? What does that mean? To get on before you get on?"

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Doe

"An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get great satisfaction in being a part of the proper - for me - community. I'm uncomfortable with various social groupings and clusterings. But when I'm in the right group, doing the right thing, I get as much satisfaction out of that as anyone who does it all the time."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Doe

"As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Doe

"Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing."

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Helen Keller Author, Activist
Doe

"Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it."

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