#rio

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews. ↗

— William Shatner

#area #city #cosmopolitan #deal #educated

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#because #doing #half #i #inferior

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#also #area #around #century #democracy

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#great #relief #vicariously #worst

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#curiosity #first #first love #foolishness #little

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#beginning #beyond #boats #broken #burned

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#any #cease #ceases #die #does

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#because #born #conviction #country #others

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#doing #may #nothing #serious #unless

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. ↗