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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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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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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.
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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.
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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
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What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!
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Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.
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My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.
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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.
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Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.
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There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.
George Bernard Shaw
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
George Bernard Shaw
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.
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