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    George Bernard Shaw
    “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.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress
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    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
    tags: art, life
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    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
    tags: inspirational
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: kill, laughter, misattributed-oscar-wilde, truth
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: adaptation, change, open-mindedness, self-improvement
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: desire, life, lost, paradox, tragedy
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “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.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession
    tags: motivational, overcoming-obstacles
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: bernard-shaw, irish, pigs, pointlessness
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: communication, misattributed, misunderstanding
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: mistakes, success
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: conscience, good-and-evil, humanity, native-americans, self-determination
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: anti-patriotism, identity, nation, nationalism, politics
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
    tags: arrogance, ignorance, politicians, politics
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
    tags: art, reminding
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: funny, humor, optimism, pessimism
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: dance, dancing, definition, innuendo, sex, widely-misattributed, wordplay
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, John Bull's Other Island
    tags: humor
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: humor
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: cowardice, hatred
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: humor, religion
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: aging, aging-gracefully
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    Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
    “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: dread, liberty, responsibility
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: change, sensibility
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: perspective
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: english-playwright
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Androcles and the Lion
    tags: religion
    339 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: insult, talkative
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: genius, honor
    280 likes



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