George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and crawling creatures seem to slither into the theater seats. The floating mountains of the planet Pandora hover gloriously overhead. And the Na'Vi, Pandora's 10-foot-tall, blue-skinned natives, come convincingly to life.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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I love clothes! I'll wear anything from Urban Outfitters or American Apparel.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.
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The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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Nobody had made this wilderness, and there was no evil in it and no good; it simply was.
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America is the biggest gang in the world.
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly.
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I feel like there's something interesting to learn from anyone's story, no matter their place in society. I think we've gotten really far away from that - we're in such a celebrity-obsessed culture.
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I want to be known as a guy who, regardless of circumstance, always gave 100 percent, always went the hardest and the smartest. Pray up, inspiration to God, put in what I get out.
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Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."
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The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.
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I know it is unpopular. I know the timing is unpopular. I know the whole thing is unpopular. But I believe it is the right thing.
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Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.
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We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
