George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Dog Quotes

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

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Youth is just wasted on young people.

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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

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Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).

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I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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Why not give Christianity a trial?

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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

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People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

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At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

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I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

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