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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
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When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.
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Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.
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I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
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