"If I bind the future I bind..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
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“I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.”
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