George Bernard Shaw

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• Some men see things as they are and say why⁠—I dream things that never were and say why not.

• Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

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• Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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