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George Bernard Shaw
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
“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 ...
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get o...
“I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”
“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”
“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.”
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
“The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went...
“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. ...
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believe...
“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobodycanread."[...
