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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Irish dramatist & socialist [more author details]

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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.: George Bernard Shaw
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.: George Bernard Shaw
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.: George Bernard Shaw
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.: George Bernard Shaw
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.: George Bernard Shaw
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.: George Bernard Shaw
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.: George Bernard Shaw
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.: George Bernard Shaw
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.: George Bernard Shaw
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.: George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.: George Bernard Shaw
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.: George Bernard Shaw
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.: George Bernard Shaw
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.: George Bernard Shaw
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Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.: George Bernard Shaw
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.: George Bernard Shaw
One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men haven't and don't.: George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.: George Bernard Shaw
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.: George Bernard Shaw
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.: George Bernard Shaw

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