689 ordspråk av George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw föddes den
26 juli 1856 och dog den 2 november
1950 - 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Property is organized robbery.
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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
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Religion is a great force -- the only real motive force in the world; but you must get at a man through his own religion, not through yours.
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Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
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Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the Divine gift of articulate speech.
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Remember, our conduct is influenced not by our experience but by our expectations.
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad
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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
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Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements in a given society.
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