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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John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.
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It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.
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A trip to the attic is an excursion into history, and...all over the world the present unravels beneath the stored detritus of the past; that's what attics are for.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today - and even professional - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
