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George Bernard Shaw [1856-1950]
 | Playwright & critic & essayist George Bernard Shaw was born in Ireland and lived in London for 75 years. He is the only person awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938). |
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"England and America are two countries divided by the same language."
"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."
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live."
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."
"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."
"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."
"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force."
"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. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
"Lack of money is the root of all evil."
"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."
"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
A government with the policy to rob Peter to pay Paul
can be assured of the support of Paul. {Issue #20}
The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty. {Issue #25}
All great truths begin as blasphemies. {Issue #28}
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. {Issue #36}
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. {Issue #36}
Some men see things as they are and ask 'why?'. Others dream things that never were
and ask 'why not?'. {Issue #42}
The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe. {Issue #60}
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying
to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. {Issue #70}
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. {blog 12/2007}
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. {blog 5/2008}
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. {blog 5/2008}
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. {blog 5/2008}
I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor. {blog 5/2008}
Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it. {blog 5/2008}
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