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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Irish dramatist & socialist
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
George Bernard Shaw
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw
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