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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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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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Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
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All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
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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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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
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Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.
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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.
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I never expect a soldier to think.
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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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The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
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Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
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