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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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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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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Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.
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The hardest thing in leadership is managing your own psychology, and yet it's also the least talked about.
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It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.
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The bluegrass community... can be very strict. I didn't know if I'd be welcomed into the bluegrass community or not, but I think they judge you very fairly... I felt really welcome.
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You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
