George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

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What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
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Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.
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I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.
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Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.
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I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.
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I always forbade everyone to clean my studios, dust them, not only for fear they would disturb my things, but especially because I always counted on the protection of dust. It's my ally. I always let it settle where it likes. It's like a layer of protection.
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I'm more like an oven than a microwave.
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I think that the reason you keep hearing that it's the golden age of TV is because original storytelling is happening all the time in that medium, and people are hungry for it. And I'm as guilty as anyone for being part of an industry that is capitalizing on existing stories, sequels, these things that we are seeing again and again and again.
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Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga.
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The thing we look for everywhere is, you know, music that resonates with us. This is what moves me. And hopefully my music will move someone else.
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Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.
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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.
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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.
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I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.
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Liberals are people who are educated beyond their capacity.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.
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Many people say they're looking for love, yet they're actually committed to never finding it. Many people would really rather not know the true scars and triumphs of the person who lies in their arms.
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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.