George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
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The medical profession is a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... Until there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.
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I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.
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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.
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Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.
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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.
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There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject...
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You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.
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Syllables govern the world.
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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.
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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.
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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.