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?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got 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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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
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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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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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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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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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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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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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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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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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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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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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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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A drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
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