George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.
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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
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Stimulate the phagocytes.
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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
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Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
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Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.
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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.
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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
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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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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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There is only one universal passion fear.
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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.