We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWImitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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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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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with.
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In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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There is always danger for those who are afraid.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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