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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw
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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.
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Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.
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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.
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Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.
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The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.
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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
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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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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.
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