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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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
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I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.
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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.
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I worked with a lot of directors, and I took something from everyone.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
