George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I don't like the blame game, though.

  

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• I started at the top and worked my way down.

  

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• The earth laughs in flowers.

  

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• As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin quickly, but they're still going to own it for some period of time... and the size of that working capital requirement will grow as the global economy grows.

  

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• I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?

  

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• Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.

  

  Aaron D. O'Connell
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• It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.

  

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• There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

  

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• The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

  

  Edith Wharton
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• I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.

  

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• The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.

  

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• There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.

  

  R. Kelly
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• But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.

  

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• Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.

  

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• All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.

  

  Parker Harris
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• We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

  

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• We kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every time. Many bands would have some success and, because they were locked into having a single - something we didn't have to worry about - they had to make sure there was something similar on the next album ... that was never the idea with Led Zeppelin .. the goal was to keep that spark of spontaneity at all times.

  

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• Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. . . . The nobler sort of man pays special attention to nine points. He is anxious to see clearly, to hear distinctly, to be kindly in his looks, respectful in his demeanor, conscientious in his speech, earnest in his affairs. When in doubt, he is careful to inquire; when in anger, he thinks of the consequences; when offered an opportunity for gain, he thinks only of his duty.

  

  Confucius
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• I like a man willing to pay the price of his pleasures.

  

  Alice Borchardt
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• Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Morals
  • Governor