George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers...
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The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
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We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.
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Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes...
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After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.
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Activity is the only road to knowledge.
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Decency is Indecency’s Conspiracy of Silence.
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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
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Better never than late.
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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.
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If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
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'We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.'