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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time""We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.""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.""A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.""Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.""This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.""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.""Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.""Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.""You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.""When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.""The worst thing about being wise is that you are perpetually being asked why you aren’t rich.""There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.""If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.""Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.""Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.""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 fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.""The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.""The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people."