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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).
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If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.
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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
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It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
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Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence
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