George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.
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'My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.'
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You may confuse a lot of people when going against the grain of conventional thinking, and that's perfectly okay. As an entrepreneur, standing up for your vision to your family and friends might possibly be the best practice you will get for the life that awaits you.
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As the economy turned up and corporate earnings have improved, corporations have again begun to invest in their IT infrastructure.
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The enemy is a spiritual enemy. He's called the principality of darkness. The enemy is a guy called Satan.
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Anyone with any sense knew that one of the best parts of the day was the hour just as the sun was rising.
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At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?
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And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins hates.
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Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life.
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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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They have a choice as a club. They don't have to sell. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change... I don't have sympathy, no.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.
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Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.
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Fred Wilson is a legendary VC and the Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures in New York City. At AVC, he writes one of the most popular startup blogs and covers issues from negotiation to hiring to fundraising. He's a machine for dispensing helpful advice and insightful commentary for those in our industry.
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Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a great cathedral? If such achievements represent anything more than the requirements of physical law, it means that science must investigate the additional controlling factors, whatever they may be, in order that the world of nature may be adequately understood.
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A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
