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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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I don't know what I believe in. I try not to think about it. I don't want to think about it. ↗

— Alan Shearer

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But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization. ↗

— Robert Shea

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Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola. ↗

— Robert Shea

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Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general. ↗

— Robert Shea

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Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action. ↗

— Robert Shea

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