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

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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
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.: George Bernard Shaw
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.: George Bernard Shaw
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.: George Bernard Shaw
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.: George Bernard Shaw
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.: George Bernard Shaw
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.: George Bernard Shaw
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.: George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.: George Bernard Shaw
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.: George Bernard Shaw
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.: George Bernard Shaw

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