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«Success covers a multitude of blunders»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
blunders, covers, multitude
«Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Jealousy
| Keywords:
all in, imaginary, in the long run, jealousy, long run, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants, The Long, The Long Run
«To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
As god, desperate, executive, existence of God, experiment, helpless, lay hands on, longed, longing, organ, realization, regard, salvation, sole, teaching, the existence of God
«Property is organized robbery.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Possessions
| Keywords:
organized, organizes, property, robberies, robbery
«In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
battle, blood, Blood and, hot, The Knowledge
«Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
fret, frets, fretted, fretting, occur, Son
«Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Belief,
Capitalism
| Keywords:
backed, capitalism, effective power, self interest
«Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Don, donning, Don Quixote, gentleman
«I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
appreciation, Irish, native, native land, showed, usual
«Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Black Death, bond, division, purple, radiant, snivel, sniveling, violet, violets
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