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Brains are not everything.
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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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.
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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.
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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
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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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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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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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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
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I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.
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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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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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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
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