George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Children Quotes, Thinking Quotes

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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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

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Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

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There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

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All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

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Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

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If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

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Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

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Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

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