George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Music Quotes, Growth Quotes

The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

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A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

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People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

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