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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
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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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.
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The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
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Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, Is there a play from Shaw this morning? and when she says, No, he will say, Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish. And that's your chance, my boy.
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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.
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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
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He who has never hoped can never despair
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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.
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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
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