Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWIf you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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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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Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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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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Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
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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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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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A drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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Your friends are all the dullest dogs.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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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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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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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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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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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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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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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
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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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You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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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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