Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it … - George Bernard Shaw

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I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.

George Bernard Shaw

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

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It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

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I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

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Justin Townes Earle

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.

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John Lee Hooker

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

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