George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
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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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Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.
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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
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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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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.
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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 have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.
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Your heart and your mouth will be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.
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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
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Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?
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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.
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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.