George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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Where there is love there is life.
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I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.
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There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Europe that can give some ground to the radicalization discourse.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.
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Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.
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The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.
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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
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Each song has its own life.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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To drift with every passion till my soulIs a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which do but mar the secret of the whole.
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
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I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn't we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it's civil rights. It doesn't get any better here in Berkeley I'll tell you that.
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I think it's somebody else's job to decide what my image is.
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Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.
