Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw
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- Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
- Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.