Tag: George Bernard Shaw

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

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Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

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Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

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