George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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We all want to win against all odds. We all want to be loved. We all wish it was possible to change our world and to make our world a better place.
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There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.
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In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age.
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And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
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I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
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I learned to walk when I was ten months old and I've been walking this way ever since.
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I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.
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People come in and out of our lives, and each of them helps form who we are and who we are to become.
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I've never left for New York. I've stood my ground here my whole career and hopefully will be able to until the day that I die.
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He knew, better than the cynic, that if you look out over the arc of history, human beings should be filled not with fear but with hope.
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it.
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Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
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I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.
