George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
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I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.
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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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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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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.
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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her...
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The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
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We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now...
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My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.
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It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.
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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.
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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.
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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.
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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.
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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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All problems are finally scientific problems.
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My reputation grows with every failure.
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As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.
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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.