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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.
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All progress is due to the unreasonable person.
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister and that is her mother.
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A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it
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With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.
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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.
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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.
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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.
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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
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It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.
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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.
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