George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.
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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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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.
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The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.
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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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Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.
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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten...
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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.
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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?
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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
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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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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.
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Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.
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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.
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I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.
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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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All problems are finally scientific problems.
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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.
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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.