George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
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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.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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I dig Steve Harvey: he's the suit man. I be checking him out.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
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I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.
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I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
