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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
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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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
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Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.
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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.
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A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
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