George Bernard Shaw Quotes

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
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• I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

  

  Ralph Ellison
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• A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• Go West, young man.

  

  Aaron Burr
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• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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• I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

  Rand Paul
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• Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
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• 100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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• No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

  

  Daisy Bates
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• We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• A true man hates no one.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

  

  Warren Bennis
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• I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

  

  E. B. White
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• When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.

  

  Ed Smith
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• I am a common man. Why do I need security?

  

  Kariya Munda
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• It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
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• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

  

  G. H. Hardy
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• So long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he is often going to need to have his ears slapped back, and who should do this but the clergy?

  

  Anne Roe
  • Nature
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  • Evil

• In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

  

  William James
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  • Order
  • White

• I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.

  

  Vikas Swarup
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• I know when California Dreaming was first released, we heard it on KFWB or KHJ or something, and it was so exciting to hear the record come on the radio.

  

  Michelle Phillips The Mamas & The Papas
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• A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Faithful wife
  • Healthy house