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| View | 401 | George Bernard Shaw | I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. |
| View | 402 | George Bernard Shaw | The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them. |
| View | 403 | George Bernard Shaw | When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. |
| View | 404 | George Bernard Shaw | We don't stop playing because we grow old we grow old because we stop playing. |
| View | 405 | George Bernard Shaw | He who has never hoped can never despair. |
| View | 406 | George Bernard Shaw | All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. |
| View | 407 | George Bernard Shaw | Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. |
| View | 408 | George Bernard Shaw | The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. |
| View | 409 | George Bernard Shaw | The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone. |
| View | 410 | George Bernard Shaw | A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. |
| View | 411 | George Bernard Shaw | He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. |
| View | 412 | George Bernard Shaw | A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance. |
| View | 413 | George Bernard Shaw | Activity is the only road to knowledge. |
| View | 414 | George Bernard Shaw | No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another. |
| View | 415 | George Bernard Shaw | Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. |
| View | 416 | George Bernard Shaw | It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. |
| View | 417 | George Bernard Shaw | If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. |
| View | 418 | George Bernard Shaw | There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. |
| View | 419 | George Bernard Shaw | The art of government is the organization of idolatry. |
| View | 420 | George Bernard Shaw | In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. |
| View | 421 | George Bernard Shaw | 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. |
| View | 422 | George Bernard Shaw | There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. |
| View | 423 | George Bernard Shaw | Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. |
| View | 424 | George Bernard Shaw | This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. |
| View | 425 | George Bernard Shaw | People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. |
| View | 426 | George Bernard Shaw | A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. |
| View | 427 | George Bernard Shaw | What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. |
| View | 428 | George Bernard Shaw | The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. |
| View | 429 | George Bernard Shaw | Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. |
| View | 430 | George Bernard Shaw | Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. |
| View | 431 | George Bernard Shaw | Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. |
| View | 432 | George Bernard Shaw | There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. |
| View | 433 | George Bernard Shaw | We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. |
| View | 434 | George Bernard Shaw | It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. |
| View | 435 | George Bernard Shaw | Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. |
| View | 436 | George Bernard Shaw | What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead. |
| View | 437 | George Bernard Shaw | A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. |
| View | 438 | 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. |
| View | 439 | George Bernard Shaw | Hell is full of musical amateurs. |
| View | 440 | George Bernard Shaw | Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. |
| View | 441 | George Bernard Shaw | Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. |
| View | 442 | George Bernard Shaw | Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. |
| View | 443 | George Bernard Shaw | Lack of money is the root of all evil. |
| View | 444 | George Bernard Shaw | Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. |
| View | 445 | George Bernard Shaw | I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. |
| View | 446 | George Bernard Shaw | I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. |
| View | 447 | George Bernard Shaw | If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. |
| View | 448 | George Bernard Shaw | If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. |
| View | 449 | 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. |
| View | 450 | George Bernard Shaw | Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. |
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