George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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Now a few words of advice to boys, and especially to those of my own race, my heart goes out to them as they face life's struggles.
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Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.
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Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.
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Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.
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Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.
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Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
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You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.
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Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind of combustion which goes on within us. In every one of us there is a living process of combustion going on very similar to that of a candle, and I must try to make that plain to you. For it is not merely true in a poetical sense-the relation of the life of man to a taper; and if you will follow, I think I can make this clear.
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Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.
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In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
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If it looks like this is a leaky system despite FDA's efforts to really step it up, we may very well call for it to be taken off the market.
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The goal for me has always been to learn how to express myself in radio and to have fun doing it and work with whatever contingencies arise.
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I love Top 40 pop, don't get me wrong; I just don't think that there's anyone in Top 40 pop that's 'real.'
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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!
