Clean up G. B. Shaw quotes:
- fix missing punctuation, - remove duplicates in fortunes2, - don't abbreviate first names. Remove duplication of Shaw's principle in fortunes2.
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@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ A fool must now and then be right by chance.
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into
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superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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-- G. B. Shaw
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-- George Bernard Shaw
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A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block
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of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an
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@ -3148,7 +3148,7 @@ aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the
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incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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-- G. B. Shaw
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-- George Bernard Shaw
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Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you
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don't think.
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@ -6097,7 +6097,7 @@ was to go away."
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"I never met a piece of chocolate I didn't like."
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I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation.
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-- G. B. Shaw
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-- George Bernard Shaw
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"I only touch base with reality on an as-needed basis!"
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-- Royal Floyd Mengot (Klaus)
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@ -9229,7 +9229,7 @@ NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Guiseppe? Everything he
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says is wrong.
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GUISEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says
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will be right.
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-- G. B. Shaw, "The Man of Destiny"
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-- George Bernard Shaw, "The Man of Destiny"
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Nasrudin called at a large house to collect for charity. The servant
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said "My master is out." Nasrudin replied, "Tell your master that next
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach
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their children to speak it.
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-- G. B. Shaw
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-- George Bernard Shaw
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The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a
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remarkable Christian forbearance among men.
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@ -13906,8 +13906,8 @@ home."
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-- Ken Olson, President of DEC, World Future Society
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Convention, 1977
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it
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-- G. B. Shaw
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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-- George Bernard Shaw
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There is no substitute for good manners, except, perhaps, fast
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reflexes.
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@ -6354,10 +6354,6 @@ A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block
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of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into
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superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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-- G.B. Shaw
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A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.
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-- D. Gries
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@ -14325,10 +14321,6 @@ Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder
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aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
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-- Senator Soaper
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the
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incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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-- G.B. Shaw
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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who
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will get the blame.
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-- Laurence J. Peter
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@ -14913,10 +14905,6 @@ Don't despise your poor relations, they may become suddenly rich one day.
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Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.
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-- Lt. Col. Ollie North
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Don't do unto others as you would they should do unto you.
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Their tastes may not be the same.
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-- G.B. Shaw
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Don't drink when you drive -- you might hit a bump and spill it.
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Don't drop acid -- take it pass/fail.
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@ -18605,12 +18593,6 @@ Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
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Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no.
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-- J.R.R. Tolkien
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Go on writing plays, my boy. One of these days a London producer will go
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into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this
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morning?" and when she says "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to
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start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.
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-- G.B. Shaw to William Douglas Home
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Go out and tell a lie that will make the whole family proud of you.
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-- Cadmus, to Pentheus, in "The Bacchae" by Euripides
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@ -21729,12 +21711,6 @@ I don't wish to appear overly inquisitive, but are you still alive?
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I dote on his very absence.
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-- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on
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earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has
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succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a
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goal in front and not behind.
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-- George Bernard Shaw
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I drink to make other people interesting.
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-- George Jean Nathan
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It is much harder to find a job than to keep one.
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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged
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to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the
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youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
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-- George Bernard Shaw
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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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-- Kingsley Amis
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@ -32200,13 +32171,6 @@ Madam, I'm Adam.
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Sit on a potato pan, Otis.
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-- The Mad Palindromist
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NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Guiseppe?
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Everything he says is wrong.
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GUISEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency,
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and then everything he says will be right.
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-- G.B. Shaw
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narcolepulacyi, n:
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The contagious action of yawning, causing everyone in sight
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to also yawn.
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@ -39055,10 +39019,6 @@ Shannon's Observation
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share, n:
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To give in, endure humiliation.
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Shaw's Principle:
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Build a system that even a fool can use,
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and only a fool will want to use it.
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She always believed in the old adage -- leave them while you're looking
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good.
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-- Anita Loos, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
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@ -42236,10 +42196,6 @@ The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable
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in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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-- Oscar Wilde, "A Woman of No Importance"
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The English have no respect for their language,
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and will not teach their children to speak it.
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-- G.B. Shaw
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The English instinctively admire any man
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who has no talent and is modest about it.
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-- James Agate, British film and drama critic
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@ -44828,11 +44784,6 @@ is that the experience makes you wise.
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The reason why worry kills more people
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than work is that more people worry than work.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
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persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
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depends on the unreasonable man.
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-- George Bernard Shaw
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The reasons that each of these countries has had to renege on its
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financial committments were all somewhat different: Argentina because of
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a war, Poland because of its vast misguided overinvestment in heavy
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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-- G.B. Shaw
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There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity.
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-- General Douglas MacArthur
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When things go well, expect something to
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explode, erode, collapse or just disappear.
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane,
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most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear
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that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition
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continuously until death do them part.
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-- George Bernard Shaw
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When users see one GUI as beautiful,
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other user interfaces become ugly.
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When users see some programs as winners,
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