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SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : Some men see things as they are and say, 'why?' I dream things that never were, and say, 'Why not?' (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you wereborn in it. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : Life isn't about finding oneself. Life is about creating oneself. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask whynot? (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : Those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : Youth is wasted on the young. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : A learned man is an idler who kills time by study. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : All great truths begin as blasphemies. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : Most people do not pray; they only beg. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD : I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)