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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
"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."
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time"
"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses."
"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
"All professions are conspiracies against the laity."
"The true joy in life is being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one."
"Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."
"The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty."
"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
"I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire."
"Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."
"The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business."
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."
"Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo."
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
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