George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
George Bernard Shaw
Quotes to Explore
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden
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There are some important questions for Syria to answer and to deal with.
Jack Straw
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What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
Vernon Lee
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It may have come into play, it may not have. But it's the principle. You never compromise those rules. It's very disappointing.
B. R. Hayden
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I was never that interested in business, to be honest. I do the minimal amount of business as possible because I'm not actually interested in it as a thing. But some people are interested in it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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Against the backdrop of people who avoid work, cut corners, and do half-hearted jobs, a diligent man stands out. Practicing diligence is an excellent way to stand out for Christ at home, in the workplace, and even at church. Today, complete each one of your tasks, however big or small, with diligence.
David Jeremiah
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Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.
Chogyam Trungpa
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
Okakura Kakuzo
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I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.
Charles Dickens
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I've thought of doing many things in my life, under the influence of life, and I've never actually thought of straddling two carriages while they're moving.
Johnny Depp
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We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'
Albert Camus
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It's just a real thrill when you're showing somebody a chord progression or something, and you see that light come on, you know. You see 'em 'get it.'
Johnny Gimble