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“Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.”

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Brooke Astor, an American writer, was born on March 30, 1902, and passed away on August 13, 2007. She is known for her unique writing style and profound insights into life. more

“During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.”

Lasts Turns Cases Century Members Credit London Committees Council Epidemics Smallpox Vaccinations Eczema

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.”

Firsts Evolution Programming Heresy Misconduct

Book:George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.”

Ifs Funny Half Neighbor Neighbour

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.”

Way Hell Gates Gates Of Hell Happy Death

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.”

Knows Writing Has Beens School My Own Educated Ties Controversial Eccentric Obsolete Old School

Author:George Bernard Shaw

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