George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary...
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Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.
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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.
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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
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Paradoxes are the only truths.
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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
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We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.
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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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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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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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A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.
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There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.
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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.
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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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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.