George Bernard Shaw Quotes

It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

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I'm looking to make history.
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Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.
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It ain't the heat, it's the humility.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
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In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
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I was born in Norfolk, Virginia. I began school there, the first year of public school. When I was 7, the family shifted back to North Carolina. I grew up in North Carolina; had my schooling through the college level in North Carolina.
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History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
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He looked no different now than when I first met him (in January). He's happy and excited.
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The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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We Jews have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity.
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What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.
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This legislation will give miners a fighting chance to survive situations like what happened at Sago.
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Zealous conviction is a dangerous substitute for an open mind.
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Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.
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At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.