George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Purpose Quotes, Intention Quotes

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

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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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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

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Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

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The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

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