George Bernard Shaw
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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Our past, is the only picture that can reflect light upon the path of our future.
I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.
When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.
Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.
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