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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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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
    “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
    “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
    1727 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Immaturity
    tags: family, humor
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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
    “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
    “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
    “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: ideas
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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
    “A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. ”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: humor
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “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.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “There is always danger for those who are afraid.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: danger, fear
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    81811 likes



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