George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Ions Quotes, Water Quotes

Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

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Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

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I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

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