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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Activity is the only road to knowledge.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
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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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Decency is Indecency’s Conspiracy of Silence.
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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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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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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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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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Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes...
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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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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
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Better never than late.
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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
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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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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
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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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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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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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All progress means war with Society.