George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Children Quotes, Mean Quotes

Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

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Heartbreak is life educating us.

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If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.

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Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

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What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

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No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

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