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13535 quotesPower does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Power
George Bernard Shaw
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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
Nationalities and Nationalism
George Bernard Shaw
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Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
Self-denial
George Bernard Shaw
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Self-sacrifice
George Bernard Shaw
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She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Conversation
George Bernard Shaw
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Silence
George Bernard Shaw
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Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not?
Vision
George Bernard Shaw
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The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
Gardening and Gardens
George Bernard Shaw
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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
Uncategorised
George Bernard Shaw
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
Language
George Bernard Shaw
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
Crime and Criminals
George Bernard Shaw
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
Right and Rightness
George Bernard Shaw
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The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Debt
George Bernard Shaw
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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
Joy
George Bernard Shaw
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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
Riches
George Bernard Shaw
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Morality
George Bernard Shaw
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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Prison
George Bernard Shaw
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Cynics and Cynicism
George Bernard Shaw
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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
Idols
George Bernard Shaw
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
Forgiveness
George Bernard Shaw
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Quarrels
George Bernard Shaw
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
Gossip
George Bernard Shaw
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
Population
George Bernard Shaw
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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
Secrets
George Bernard Shaw
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
Tragedies
George Bernard Shaw
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun