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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.
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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
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The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
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It is not that I am so clever it is that everyone else is so stupid.
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