George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.
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But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.
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I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
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After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.
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Good asparagus needs minimal treatment and is best eaten with few other ingredients.
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We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.
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You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur, and you create a company to solve a real problem. And by real problem, I mean a problem that is going to exist down the line.
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At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.
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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
