George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
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A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.
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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
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The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.
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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist...
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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.
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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.
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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
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Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.