George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
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All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
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For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
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Art is ..the mysterious expression of the mysterious..
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The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.
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A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
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Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions with their kids and their sense of happiness. You add all that together, and it's just really obvious to me that eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
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I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.
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Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.
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The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
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Success in science and scientific work come not through the provision of unlimited or big resources, but in the wise and careful selection of problems and objectives. Above all, what is required is hard sustained work and dedication.
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I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...
