George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

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• It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Nothing
  • Succeed
  • Without

• In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • War
  • Army
  • Egypt

• There is no difference between fundamental research and applied research. Although this is my view, based on personal taste and the areas I have worked in, it is not necessarily true for others.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • True
  • Difference
  • Research

• I've got a grocery bill at the end of every month.Our toothpaste, our orange juice, that all gets paid. But I - it is true that I don't carry my wallet that often.

  

  Barack Obama
  • True
  • Months
  • Juice

• I do not think it is an advantage to build planned packaged houses. If you prefabricate a house completely, it becomes an unnecessary restriction.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • House
  • Advantage
  • Build

• There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I'm reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Feeling

• I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Design
  • Happens
  • Breathe

• Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.

  

  Aristotle
  • Fear
  • Tyrants
  • Preserve

• We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

  

  Aristotle
  • Superiority
  • Hypotheses
  • Premises

• I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Company

• Let every man be master of his time.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Men
  • inspirational

• Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

  

  Plutarch
  • Learning
  • Practice
  • Blind

• By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?

  

  Plutarch
  • Character
  • Opinion
  • Biographies

• I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Done
  • Eating
  • Rolling Stones

• A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Beautiful
  • Persons
  • Mediocre

• Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got something to pass on. There'll be nobody like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Knowledge
  • Years
  • Information

• I pride myself on being able to get the guys lined up on the team, and being a great teammate and also doing my job.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Job
  • Pride
  • Teammate

• Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Property
  • Theft
  • Proudhon