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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
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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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.
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Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, Is there a play from Shaw this morning? and when she says, No, he will say, Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish. And that's your chance, my boy.
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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
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Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.
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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
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Most people do not pray they only beg.
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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist
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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!
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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.
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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
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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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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.
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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
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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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