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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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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
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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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Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.
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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.
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NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
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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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Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
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