QUOTES by George Bernard Shaw
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"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world."
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"As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it."
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"If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters"
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"Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation."
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"There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject"
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"Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both."
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"Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance"
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"You see things and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were and say, Why not?"
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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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"There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough."
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"Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock."
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"I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it."
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"We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."
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"Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value."
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"If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases."
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"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor"
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"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
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"My way of joking is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world"
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"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."
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"I am sick of reasonable people: they see all the reasons for being lazy and doing nothing."
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"A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her"
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"If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire..."
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"The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creator's hand. In the face of an Indian, you can see the natural glory of life, while we have covered ourselves with an artificial cloak."
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"In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice."
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"We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners"
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"If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad."
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"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads."
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"The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business."
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"When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind"
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"The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them"
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"Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay."
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"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."
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"Do not love your neighbour as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence; if on bad, an injury."
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