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«We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.»
«The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.»
«The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
majorities, majority, minority, sometimes, wrong
«The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
accurate, called, commonly, commonly called, cynicism, got, observation, power, The Power
«The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
anew, behaves, expect, fit, fitter, go on, measurement, measurements, old, old times, rest, sees, sensibly, tailor, tailored, tailoring, takes, The Tailor, well behaved, while
«In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
afraid, danger, in this, In this World, out of danger
«Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Creativity,
Imagination
| Keywords:
at last, create, Creation, imagine, The Beginning
«The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
believer, drunken, fact, happier, in point of fact, no more, point, point man, skeptic, skeptics, sober, sobered, soberest, sobering, sobers, sober up, the point, The Skeptic, to the point
«We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins»
«A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
gentleman, puts, takes, The Gentlemen
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