George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.
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My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.
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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community...
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What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.
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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.
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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
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I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.
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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination...
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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.
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Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
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I know Miss Warren is a great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.
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War does not decide who is right but who is left.
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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.
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If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.
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I don't believe in morality. I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.