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A great social reformer.
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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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.
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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
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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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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.
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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.
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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.
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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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Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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