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    Confucius
    “he who will not economize will have to agonize”
    ― Confucius
    tags: frugality, ignorance, knowledge, suffering, wisdom
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    William Blake
    “Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: moderation
    276 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: indiscretion, moderation
    44 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Moderation in all things, especially moderation.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: moderation
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    Milan Kundera
    “Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only its practical aims, which are concealed beneath these sophistries. Political rhetoric and sophistries do not exist, after all, in order that they be believed; rather, they have to serve as a common and agreed upon alibi. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest, and finish finally and infamously as heretics and apostates. No, too much faith never brings anything good...”
    ― Milan Kundera
    tags: cynicism, dogma, faith, history, machiavellian, moderation, philosophicaloutlookonlife, pragmatism
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: art, artists, arts, arts-and-humanities, catholic, catholic-author, christian, dignity, dignity-in-the-arts, ethics, ethics-and-moral-philosophy, free-for-all, freedom, freedom-of-expression, gadfly, limits, media, moderation, modesty, morality, morals, virtue, virtue-of-modesty, virtues, virtues-and-vices
    33 likes

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  • #7
    Plutarch
    “Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield
    themselves up when taken little by little.”
    ― Plutarch
    tags: moderation
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: dance, dancing, definition, innuendo, sex, widely-misattributed, wordplay
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
    tags: arrogance, ignorance, politicians, politics
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: ideas
    638 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: humor
    511 likes

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  • #12
    George Bernard Shaw
    “After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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  • #13
    George Bernard Shaw
    “I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: humor, religion
    439 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: cowardice, hatred
    527 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    465 likes

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  • #16
    George Bernard Shaw
    “You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: aging, aging-gracefully
    406 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Androcles and the Lion
    tags: religion
    338 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
    349 likes

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  • #19
    George Bernard Shaw
    “When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: perspective
    356 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska the Bolshevik Empress
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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  • #22
    Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
    “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: dread, liberty, responsibility
    408 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: change, sensibility
    377 likes

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  • #24
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: george-bernard-shaw
    307 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: attributed, definitions, drinking, shaw-review-10
    272 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma
    248 likes

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  • #28
    George Bernard Shaw
    “The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: insult, talkative
    294 likes

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  • #29
    George Bernard Shaw
    “What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
    tags: alone, leaving, loss, love
    267 likes

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  • #30
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
    42320 likes



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