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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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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
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Very few people can afford to be poor.
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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
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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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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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Life is a disease and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.
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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
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