George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
Quotes to Explore
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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Political correctness kills discussion.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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I will run against anybody.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
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Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.
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To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.
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The financial passport is part of full access to the E.U. market, and a precondition for that is the contribution to the E.U. budget. That has been the case in Norway and in Switzerland. That is clear.
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Josephus: I'm Josephus, and I'm the main course over at the Colosseum!
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So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
