George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.
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Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.
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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
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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.
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Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.
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All Artists are Anarchists.
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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.
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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.
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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.
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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.