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Quotes of George Bernard Shaw (Russia)
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful. (life)
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. (human)
You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" (dreams & dreamers)
Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music. (dancing)
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. (wisdom)
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. (life)
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. (experience)
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. (civilization & progr)
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. (creativity)
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. (contradiction)
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice. (coward and cowardice)
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. (cooperation)
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. (cynics and cynicism)
We sing in a church, why can we not dance there? (churches)
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. (courage)
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. (democracy)
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. (duty)
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. (convalescence)
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. (danger)
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. (elections)
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood. (idols)
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them. (doctors)
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity. (churches)
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. (crime and criminals)
If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. (economy and economic)
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Shaw, George Bernard | [2] | [3] | [4] | [5] | [6] | [7] | [8] | [9]
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