George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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• My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

  

  Dan Brown
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• My first car was a motorcycle.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Will
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• I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Mother
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• If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• We are removing the most important cultural roadblock to accepting the role of God as creator.

  

  Phillip E. Johnson
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• I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Real
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• Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Up
  • Men
  • Thinking

• You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the whole reason you're on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable. The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • World
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• It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans in social media than it is to communicate complex policies.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Clearly, it's going to affect the Gulf Coast economy quite a bit.

  

  Ben Bernanke
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• Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Men
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• By some mysterious reason, there is no difficulty for a man in illtreating a woman, and this is something amazing. Everybody loves his mother, sisters and relatives etc, but still, with all this there is this callous attitude and ill-treatment of women. So women's movements are necessary. One thing which is forgotten in India is the transformation of the attitude of men. It is in this field that active work has to be done. We all preach to women that they should assert themselves. But on the other hand we don't tell sufficient early, strongly, to the male that they should behave well, their attitude should change. I have no doubt that even the women's reservation [bill] will be finally adopted.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Man
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• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
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• If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

  

  Terry Brooks
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• As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in LA and had nothing to do with the industry.

  

  Troian Bellisario
  • People
  • Stars
  • Industry

• Breaking the United States up into a number of pieces could be very good for the integration of those new nations with the rest of the world and the international law whose primary enemy is now the United States government. I think that it would be very good for democracy, for people to be within some hundreds of miles of their nation's capital, as they are in many other countries, so that they didn't have to travel thousands of miles to protest, to exercise their First Amendment rights, but that is the current state of affairs in this overly large, imperial nation.

  

  David Swanson
  • Government
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  • Nation

• The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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