George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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Don't forget to eat a lot of greens and fish oil pills. Those are two of the best things to keep your skin glowing.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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Succeeding makes us feel good. But beating someone else makes us feel really good. Comparing ourselves to others and coming out on top creates a sense of entitlement. And when we feel entitled, we cheat more because, of course, the rules don't apply to awesome people like us.
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Eventually you get bored and you want to work.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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With every little bit of change we make in our lives, we can maximize that small change simply by asking ourselves: 'What's next? What can I do now? What additional responsibility can I take on?'
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I am going to keep my mind (well, what's left of it) occupied by doing (and I never thought the day would come when I would say this) my homework.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
