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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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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He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.
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A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.
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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.
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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.
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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!
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We educate one another and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
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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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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
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We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.
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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.
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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
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