George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
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It changes you a little bit every time you either break someone's heart or get your heart broken.
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Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship.
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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
