George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.
Quotes to Explore
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You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.
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You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.
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Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.
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Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.
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Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts
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Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.
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I’m a nobody telling everybody about Somebody who can save anybody.
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Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
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No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
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I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.
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Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs, Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I love Barbados, it's really relaxing.
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In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.
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It's important to take criticism seriously - not personally.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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When you take a photo at 1/1000 of a second, the moment can become an eternal fact, an eternal moment. So we have a philosophical problem of objectivity and subjectivity.
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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.
