“If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a suffi...”
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An Irish playwright.
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“If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a suffi...”
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“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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“The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.”
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“What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.”
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“If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.”
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“If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave the...”
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“I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.”
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“The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.”
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“The people who get on in this 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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“Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.”
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“He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
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“Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.”
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“Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.”
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“Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.”
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“Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the divis...”
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“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”
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“A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.”
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“Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.”
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“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.”
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“Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.”
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