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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
Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God. George Bernard Shaw
God Daily Creation Bad Slogan Would Minute Miracle Recurrence
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. George Bernard Shaw
Made Gentleman Reading Mad He Him Read Don Quixote Quixote Believing
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
In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life. George Best
Life Women My Life Alcohol Gave Worst Minutes Up
Nobody knows me. George Best
Me Nobody Knows
We have control over the work of our hands, but little over the working of the soul. But yet we must yield to it, for without it we have nothing. George William Russell
Work Soul Control Nothing Our Must Over Without Yield Hands Little Working
Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war. Gerry Adams
War Peace Making Than Much Found Harder
As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and get down to work. Play your songs, play them well, earn your money, and don't get in people's way. Glen Hansard
Work Needs People Ego Money Down Earn Way One Thing Songs Self-Consciousness Well Shed Does Get Them Working Your Play Thing
I try to face things without regret, or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can. Hozier
Happy Regret Try Face Nothing Unsaid Make Sure Without Leave Things
I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining. Imelda May
Singing Those Kids Entertaining Annoying Loves
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. Iris Murdoch
Love You Eyes Love Is World Out See New New Eyes Falling Very Short While Enlightening
The cry of equality pulls everyone down. Iris Murdoch
Equality Down Everyone Cry
Only lies and evil come from letting people off. Iris Murdoch
People Evil Lies Only Come Off Letting
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. Iris Murdoch
Love Change Marriage People Priesthood Other Unlike Recognized Must Some Without Go Falling Falling In Love Years Often Which Realizing Hardly Start
My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline. Jack Reynor
Favorite Favorite Thing About New York New York View Skyline Thing
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