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«It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made»
«I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no ?brief candle? to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Ambition,
Death,
Effort,
Satisfaction,
Work
«Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Prayer
| Keywords:
beg, common people
«When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
apparent, contract, credulous, mission, proved, skeptical
«We throw the whole drudgery of creation one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
delicacies, delicacy, imply, initiate, initiated, initiating
«Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
indiscriminately, The Organization
«Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
pretense, pretenses, reluctance, whitewashed, whitewashing
«A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often»
«Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes»
«We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
transfer, transferred, transferring
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