George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.
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White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.
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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
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When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
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Never doubt that one person can make a difference.
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I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.
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An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
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In tribal Botswana, I received some woven necklaces and a handmade bow with three poison arrows. It's framed and hanging on the wall in my living room and is, without a doubt, one of my favorite possessions.
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As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
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People are often very limiting to themselves and can be their own worst enemy.
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We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.
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The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress.
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Any belief worth having must survive doubt...
