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«We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, unkind, unkindest, veneer
«The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
exist, in the main, main, populate, populated, populated by, populating
«Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
Born, burning, catches, catch fire, child, fire, flame, flamed, In Flames, Itself, time and again, time and time again
«Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
People
| Keywords:
adapt, adapting, adapts, attempt, depends, progress, reasonable, therefore, unreasonable
«You sometimes have to answer to a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly»
«Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Problems,
Science
| Keywords:
creating, science, solves, ten
«Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
Born, conviction, countries, country, patriotism, superior
«Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
delivering, object, postage, postage stamp, postage stamps, stamping, stamps, stamp out, unwrap, unwrapping
«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»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
People
| Keywords:
believe in, blaming, circumstances, get on, get up, in this, In this World, look for, The People
«Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.»
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