All great truths begin as blasphemies.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWThere are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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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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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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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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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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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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