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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Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.
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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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When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.
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When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears.
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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.