George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
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Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.
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In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.
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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
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Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.
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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.
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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.
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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.
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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
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Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?
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Every girl has a right to be loved.
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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your copyrights.
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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.