George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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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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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
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The disappearance of medial prefrontal activation could explain why so many traumatized people lose their sense of purpose and direction. I used to be surprised by how often my patients asked me for advice about the most ordinary things, and then by how rarely they followed it. Now I understood that their relationship with their own inner reality was impaired. How could they make decisions, or put any plan into action, if they couldn't define what they wanted or, to be more precise, what the sensations in their bodies, the basis of all emotions, were trying to tell them?
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By moderation one can be generous.
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I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture. For better and worse, of course. Even the worst can be interesting to some degree sometimes for somebody creative.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
