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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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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I've got more respect out of this for myself. It's the best decision I ever made.
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I always dreamed of being an entertainer. So, my whole life to some extent, or from the age that I can remember onwards, I knew I was going to have to make some sort of attempt at being noticed for being funny.
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As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.
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This announcement is very bad news, but the timing of action by the international community remains that agreed by the UN Security Council.
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If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
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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.
