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    • “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw.
    • “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ― George Bernard Shaw.
    • “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw.
    • “You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?” ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah.
    • Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw.
    • We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw.
    • Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw.
    • Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw.
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    The old Whigs and new Tories of the school of Cobden and Bright, the "Philosophic Radicals," the economists of whom Bastiat is the type, Lord Wemyss and Lord Bramwell, Mr. Herbert Spencer and Mr. A...

    The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
    I delight in the war more & more. It has waked up the country out of its filthy wallowing in money (blood is a far superior bath); and it has put a fourpence on the Income Tax which will never come...
    The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
    Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
    I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian. It was Shelley who first opened my eyes to the savagery of my diet.
    You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
    Why was I born with such contemporaries?
    A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to...
    A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of...
    The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
    That proves it's not by Shaw, because all Shaw's characters are himself: mere puppets stuck up to spout Shaw.
    As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

    The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent huma...

    No public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

    The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

    • "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." — From Immaturity.
    • "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." — From The Doctor's Dilemma.
    • "[The] power of accurate observation ... is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." — The World.
    • "The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it." — From Maxims for Revolutionaries.
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  4. Dance. Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. George Bernard Shaw. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw: Man and Superman. Desire. As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. George Bernard Shaw: Overruled.

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