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.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWPeople are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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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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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
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I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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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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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means
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