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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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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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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.
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Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
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I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.
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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.
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I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.
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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.
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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.
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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.
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It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.
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