George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
Quotes to Explore
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A woman should be an illusion.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
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I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
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The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.
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One has to be fully aware of the fact that the prevailing system of arms control agreements is a complex and quite fragile structure
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Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
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A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person.
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A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
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How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?
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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
