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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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The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
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The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
George Bernard Shaw -
That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice...
George Bernard Shaw -
Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.
George Bernard Shaw -
A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
George Bernard Shaw -
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
George Bernard Shaw -
We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.
George Bernard Shaw
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
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Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.
George Bernard Shaw -
Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw -
She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.
George Bernard Shaw
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Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
George Bernard Shaw -
I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw -
Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw -
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.
George Bernard Shaw -
There is only one universal passion fear.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw -
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now...
George Bernard Shaw