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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.
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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.
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The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
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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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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
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Music is the brandy of the damned.
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The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.
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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
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There is nothing in religion but fiction.
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.
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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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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
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