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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
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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All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.
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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
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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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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.
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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.
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The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
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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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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
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I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her
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Fear is choosing the safe course
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All progress means war with society.
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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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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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