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Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
George Bernard Shaw
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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
George Bernard Shaw -
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw -
I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir...
George Bernard Shaw -
We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.
George Bernard Shaw -
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
George Bernard Shaw -
Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.
George Bernard Shaw
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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
George Bernard Shaw -
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
George Bernard Shaw -
If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.
George Bernard Shaw -
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
George Bernard Shaw -
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
George Bernard Shaw -
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
George Bernard Shaw
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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
George Bernard Shaw -
Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.
George Bernard Shaw -
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
George Bernard Shaw -
Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.
George Bernard Shaw -
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
George Bernard Shaw -
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard Shaw
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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.
George Bernard Shaw -
I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.
George Bernard Shaw -
Very few people can afford to be poor.
George Bernard Shaw -
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
George Bernard Shaw