George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
Quotes to Explore
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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
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I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
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Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
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When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.
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I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
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Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.
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All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.
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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
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We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.
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Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
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Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.
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He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.
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I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.
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People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
