George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Some of us are lucky enough to choose what we wear, and some of us don't have that luxury, but we all are communicating something to the world around us by what we wear, no matter if it's sweatpants or a tuxedo.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.
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I just want to be rich and famous.
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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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There's not too many rich black people in this world.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
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Rich people march on Washington every day.
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Indian food is a luxury on tour.
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The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
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Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
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William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
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The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.
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You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.
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And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.
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Morals are a luxury of the rich.
