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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

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Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

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When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

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It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

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What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

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[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

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

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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

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The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

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Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.

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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

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