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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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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Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead.
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Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors.
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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When a child has a dream and a parent says, "It's not financially feasible; you can't make a living at that; don't do it," we say to the child, run away from home... You must follow your dream. You will never be joyful if you don't. Your dream may change, but you've got to stay after your dreams. You have to.
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O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
