George Bernard Shaw Quotes
A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
Arthur Daniel Miller
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
Zach Braff
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There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell!
George C. Wolfe
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We came up short on offense and that's on me.
Joe Gibbs
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Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
Oprah Winfrey
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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
Elia Kazan
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I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.
Eliot Spitzer
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If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.
Jimmie Davis
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Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is.
George Foreman
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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
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It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.
Muhammad Ali
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Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content.
Epictetus
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Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth.
Albert Einstein
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Socrates
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One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.
Gautama Buddha
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Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.
Abraham J. Twerski
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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
George Bernard Shaw