George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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I'm an iPod person.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.
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Can any sane person say that before something comes on the Net you must screen it? How can there be pre-screening?
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Some sciences need mutual support and assistance to develop. The majority of these are physical sciences. Mutual support has almost no use in other disciplines, such as attainment of intuitive knowledge of God or spiritual progress.
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My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
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The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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You have to remember that although Gandhi and Churchill only met physically once, their paths crossed again and crossed again all over the globe, from London and South Africa and India and back to London. In fact, I discovered that during the Boer War in 1899 they literally passed yards from each other on the battlefield.
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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.
