George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
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Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
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I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
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Where we're operating is orbital adventures. We would offer five to seven days in low Earth orbit aboard our own spacecraft where customers would have the view of the Earth; get to experience really living in space, probably conducting some scientific investigations that we would piggyback onto those flights. So, they would have the whole experience, kind of a mini-experience of what professional astronauts have.
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I think we need missile defense. But I want to make sure it works, that it's cost effective, that the technologies are operable, that it's our best possible strategy, and that hasn't been shown.
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I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
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You focus on the here and now in order to escape existence forever and vanish into Nirvana. There is another religious impulse that is the opposite of this. It uses a world elsewhere in order to affirm life and give a reason to "go forth and multiply".
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Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.
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The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might.
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I laughed out loud and shook my head, "You're crazy!" He nodded, "About you.
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It's important to be conscious of the world we live in. We get one chance, as far as I'm concerned, but we all leave an echo. It's important that our echo resonates positively on the planet and its inhabitants after we're gone.
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Don't shed no tears, no woman, no cry.
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The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
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You are holy, great and mighty, the moon and the stars DECLARE who You are...I'm so unworthy, but still You love me, forever my heart will sing of how great You are!
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Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.
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I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.
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But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.
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In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it’s always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won’t be discovered for another hundred years? I’ll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.
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Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
