George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?
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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
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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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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
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An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.
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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.
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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
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The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.
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Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.
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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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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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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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A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
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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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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.
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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then...
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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.
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Stimulate the phagocytes.