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George
Bernard Shaw
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish dramatist, literary critic, a
socialist spokesman,
and a leading figure in the 20th century
theater. Shaw was a freethinker, a supporter
of women's rights and
an advocate of equality of income. In 1925 he was awarded
the Nobel
Prize for Literature. Shaw accepted the honor but refused the money.
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Better keep yourself clean
and bright;
you are the window through which you must see the world.
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Life
is a flame that is always burning itself out,
but it catches fire again every time a child is born. |
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Perhaps
the greatest social service that can be rendered
by anybody to this
country and to humankind is to bring up a family. |
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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. |
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Life
is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch
which I
have got 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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The worst sin
toward our fellow creature is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to
them: that's the essence of inhumanity. |
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People
are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for
experience.
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The
test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. |
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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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We
have no more right to consume happiness
without producing it than to
consume wealth without producing it. |
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Virtue
consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. |
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The greatest of our evils
and the worst of our crimes is poverty.
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Happiness and beauty are
by-products.
Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. |
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The
only way to avoid being miserable is
not to have enough leisure to
wonder whether you are happy or not. |
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Give
people health and a course to steer,
and they'll never stop to trouble about
whether they're happy or not. |
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The
reasonable people adapt themselves to the world;
the unreasonable ones persist in trying to adapt the world to
themselves. |
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The
person with a toothache thinks everyone happy
whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken person
makes the same mistake about the rich
person. |
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The
only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage
by
holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of
yourself. |
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A
day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less,
and the one who does
it needs a day's sustenance,
a night's repose and due leisure,
whether
he or she be a painter or a ploughman. |
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When
people shake their heads because
we are living in a restless age,
ask
them
how they would like to live in a stationary
one, and do without
change. |
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Progress is
impossible without change, and those who
cannot change their minds
cannot change anything. |
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A
life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable
but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. |
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