George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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 a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
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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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I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.
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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination...
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War does not decide who is right but who is left.
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Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.
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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.
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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.
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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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As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.
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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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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
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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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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
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Never repeat old grievances.
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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 secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
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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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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.