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Activity is the only road to knowledge.
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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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.
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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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People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.
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Our laws make law impossible our liberties destroy all freedom our property is organized robbery our morality an impudent hypocrisy our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes our power wielded by cowards and weaklings and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.
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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
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If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
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Youth is just wasted on young people.
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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
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First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.
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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.
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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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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.
George Bernard Shaw
Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.
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