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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.
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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In the arts of life main invents nothing but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.
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Altogether too many sheep
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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.
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Those who understand evil pardon it.
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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.
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An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.
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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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All government is cruel for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
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