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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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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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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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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And I think that George Bush really is a very godly person.
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I'm kind of a self-aware and confident person.
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I'm more a competitive person.
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Pyongyang watchers consider the regime to be so hungry for economic growth, progress and other goodies as to have no pride, no mission, and no commitment to victory, real victory. It's all eros and no thymos. On this error rests our administration's hope for denuclearization.
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Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
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I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.
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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.
