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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The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.
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God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
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By the fourth or fifth record there was not a lot of time to sit around. We The Replacements stopped rehearsing. We stopped getting together and rehearsing. We'd perform, and that would take it all out of us. Then we'd be done touring and we'd be sick of each other. We'd never call each other up and hang out.