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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
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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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.
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I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.
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Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.
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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
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Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.
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Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.
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A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.
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Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.
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We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.
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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.
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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
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