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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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life
inspirational
yourself
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George Bernard Shaw |
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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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inspirational
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George Bernard Shaw |
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1057959
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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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tragedy
life
paradox
lost
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George Bernard Shaw |
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1249e06
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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humor
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George Bernard Shaw |
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
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love
gluttony
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George Bernard Shaw |
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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.
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overcoming-obstacles
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George Bernard Shaw |
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0668a53
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
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marriage
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George Bernard Shaw |
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b4c9ac9
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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.
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punishment
liar
lie
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George Bernard Shaw |
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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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reminding
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George Bernard Shaw |
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882131b
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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politics
politicians
ignorance
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George Bernard Shaw |
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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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. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.
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evolution
commemoration
denomination
religious-convictions
science
tenets
views
scientific
sermon
monument
cross
service
ritual
torture
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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responsibility
liberty
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George Bernard Shaw |
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3ff6f0a
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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
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sensibility
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George Bernard Shaw |
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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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inspirational
universal-truths
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George Bernard Shaw |
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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. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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truth
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George Bernard Shaw |
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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4730e5b
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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loss
love
leaving
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George Bernard Shaw |
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a042bcb
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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.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
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death
punishment
justice
crime
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George Bernard Shaw |
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c26545e
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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cod
fish
photography
humor
inspirational
images
art
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George Bernard Shaw |
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9c8e696
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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d81cfac
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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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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peace
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Your friends are all the dullest dogs I know. They are not beautiful: they are only decorated. They are not clean: they are only shaved and starched. They are not dignified: they are only fashionably dressed. They are not educated: they are only college passmen. They are not religious: they are only pewrenters. They are not moral: they are only conventional. They are not virtuous: they are only cowardly. They are not even vicious: they are ..
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wordplay
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody read." [As quoted in
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reading
censorship
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George Bernard Shaw |
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone 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 censorship.
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progress
free-speech
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George Bernard Shaw |
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78df07e
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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.
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life
inspirational
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George Bernard Shaw |
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d37ccc8
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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If you can't appreciate what you've got, you'd better get what you can appreciate.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical..
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carnivore
carnivores
slaughter
diet
meat
health
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George Bernard Shaw |
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f8119fd
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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satisfaction
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George Bernard Shaw |
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79aa04d
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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learning
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George Bernard Shaw |
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ff73b01
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I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....
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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. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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95e3d59
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby
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pygmalion
george-bernard-shaw
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George Bernard Shaw |
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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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32a1560
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Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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stupidity
intelligence
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George Bernard Shaw |
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ff3495c
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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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8cb41b4
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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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e834125
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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.
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George Bernard Shaw |