George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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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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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.
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The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world.
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Most people do not pray; they only beg.
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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
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The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.
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Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.
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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.
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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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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.
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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!
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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.
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If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.
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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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Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.
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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
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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...