"Man is the only animal which esteems..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
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“People can fly. Some people fly higher than others, that's all.”
“What you think and do affects all other people.”
“And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.”
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“Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.”
“It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.”
“I would say the country is a different country. It is a better country. The signs I saw when I was growing up are gone and they will not return. In many ways the walls of segregation have been torn down.”