George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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'He must be greatly changed. Has he attained the seventh degree of concentration?'
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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.
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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
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I never expect a soldier to think.
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
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All progress means war with Society.
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If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.
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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.
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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.