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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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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
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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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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
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