George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.
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Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.
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Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
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I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.
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I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.
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The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.
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I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.
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The reason you have descended into physical life is to unleash the power of your soul upon Earth.
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Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.
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Don't face the facts.
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When one thinks of golf and Scotland, the first thing that comes to mind is usually St. Andrews, especially the famed Old Course.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
