George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

George Bernard Shaw

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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

Edmund White
- Life
- Real
- Bad
We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

Haile Selassie
- World
- Men
- Live
The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.

Karan Mahajan
- Fall
- Religion
- Drawing
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Time
- Fall
- Failure
One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
- Different
- Trying
- Fall
Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'

Lance Henriksen
- Fall
- Moment
- Try