Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWWe learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
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Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
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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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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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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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You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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There is always danger for those who are afraid.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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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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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
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Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.
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Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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