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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
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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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.
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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
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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.
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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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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
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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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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.
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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
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