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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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The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
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