George Bernard Shaw Quotes
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
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Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.
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I'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how there are all kinds of moments in our daily lives that break - or at least could break - from the logic of profit and the modes of domination it entails. Zones of freedom, even if it's never pure.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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That old question about whether, as a woman, you can be funny and attractive at the same time. Argh! I hate that question. Of course you can.
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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
