George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

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• Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.

  

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• I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.

  

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• Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

  

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• If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.

  

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• I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.

  

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• All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

  

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• I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it.

  

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• I think sexiness in most people - and this is going to sound superficial - is definitely something you don't plan.

  

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• Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.

  

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• There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

  

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• The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays.

  

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• The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

  

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• Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.

  

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• Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

  

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• The task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses toward certain facts, events, necessities, etc., the purpose being to move their importance into the masses' field of vision.

  

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• Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.

  

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• I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.

  

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• Soul ain't nothing but a feeling.

  

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• Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.

  

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• In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

  

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• Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial sway - which was attuned to furnish the raw materials for the British manufacturing ascendance. So they were mutually reinforcing.

  

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• The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • British
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  • Stupidities