George Bernard Shaw

" Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. "
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George Bernard Shaw
Love , Truth , Knowledge , Glory , Virtue , Humanity
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" 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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People , Want , Circumstances , World
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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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Leisure
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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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Courage , Service
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" The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves. "
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" The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. "
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" The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. "
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" The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. "
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Possibilities
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" The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. "
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Man , Mistake , Sound , Poverty
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" Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. "
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People , Sacrifice
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" She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. "
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" Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. "
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Silence , Expression
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" Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English. "
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English , Socialism , Communism
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George Bernard Shaw
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26-07-1856 02-11-1950 Irish playwright, critic, and essayist. citation
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