No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWPower does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
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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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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
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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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You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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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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