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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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When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!
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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.
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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.
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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 great art and literature is propaganda.
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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
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As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.
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Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.
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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.
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General consultant to mankind.
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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.
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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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All problems are finally scientific problems.
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