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I work as my father drank.
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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Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.
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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.
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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.
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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.
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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
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