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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything 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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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.
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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.
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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
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There is only one universal passion fear.
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Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.
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Youth is just wasted on young people.
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Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours it wanders wherever your children do
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap
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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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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of Orthodoxy, True and False and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.
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