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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
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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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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
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In the arts of life main invents nothing but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of Orthodoxy, True and False and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
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If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.
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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
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Most people do not pray they only beg.
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