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My reputation grew with every failure.
Reputation
George Bernard Shaw

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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
Jokes and Jokers
George Bernard Shaw

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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
Jealousy
George Bernard Shaw

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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
Experts
George Bernard Shaw

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No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
Questions
George Bernard Shaw

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
Reasonableness
George Bernard Shaw

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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
Consequences
George Bernard Shaw

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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.
Work
George Bernard Shaw

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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
Health
George Bernard Shaw

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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
Age and Aging
George Bernard Shaw

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
Desire
George Bernard Shaw

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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Patriotism
George Bernard Shaw

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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous
Peace
George Bernard Shaw

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Power
George Bernard Shaw

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Property is organized robbery.
Property
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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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
Memory
George Bernard Shaw

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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
Science and Scientists
George Bernard Shaw

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Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Science and Scientists
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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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
Success
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