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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Irish Dramatist
Born: Jul 26, 1856
Died: Nov 2, 1950
He Man Men People World You
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Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw
Man Become Way Ability Only Martyrdom Without Famous
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! George Bernard Shaw
Sex Advice About Take He Knows Anything Should Pope Why
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. George Bernard Shaw
Service You Courage Yourself Mirror Holding See Only Noble Render Friend Up Which Really Your Keep Image
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. George Bernard Shaw
Man Mind Men One-Man Ten Beat Knows Always Who
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw
Work Failure Young Nine Out Ten More Ten Times Observed Failures Were Times Did Things
Hell is full of musical amateurs. George Bernard Shaw
Music Hell Musical Amateur Hell Is Full
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes Minority Wrong Majority Always Right
My reputation grows with every failure. George Bernard Shaw
Failure Reputation Every Grows
All genuinely intellectual work is humorous. George Bernard Shaw
Work Humorous Genuinely Intellectual
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. George Bernard Shaw
You Happy Miserable Enough Way Only Wonder Being Leisure Whether Avoid
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. George Bernard Shaw
Vote Women Men Long Clever Willing Attractive Govern Want
If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself. George Bernard Shaw
Life You Yourself Organization Big Society Benefit Our Alive We Cannot More Purpose Consume Clearly Perhaps Because Does Very Cannot Little Then Us Much Producing Use Your Keeping
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. George Bernard Shaw
Animals Thoroughly Only Am Human Afraid Human Beings Which Beings
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. George Bernard Shaw
Silence You Men Own Other Virtues Imperfections Conceal Hear Your Choose
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. George Bernard Shaw
You Happy Miserable Secret About Bother Occupation Cure Being Leisure The Secret Of Whether
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed. George Bernard Shaw
You Try Will Live Forever Succeed
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. George Bernard Shaw
Wise Experience Men Proportion Capacity
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things. George Bernard Shaw
Looking Hell Ways Only Between Heaven Frontier Difference Things Two
Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer. George Bernard Shaw
Capitalism Socialism Country Appropriation Plenty Civilisation Never Instance Arises Private Pioneers Where Available Land Among Earlier Phases Last
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. George Bernard Shaw
Religion Hundred Though Only Versions
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. George Bernard Shaw
Experience Men Never Learn Anything
I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community. George Bernard Shaw
Ownership Community Every Section Destroy Possession Point Highest May Order Want Enjoyment Raised
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. George Bernard Shaw
Life You Fear Reward Will Poverty Live Eat Govern Going Your
The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person. George Bernard Shaw
God Old Church Neither Parts Testament Passions Nor Person Body Old Testament England Therefore
The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy. George Bernard Shaw
Sympathy Respects Movement Which Warmest Many Many Respects
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. George Bernard Shaw
Self-Respect Man Difficult Well Occupied Doing Loses His Very Who Ever Thing Difficult Thing
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