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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
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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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.
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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
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As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.
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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
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Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.
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