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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Appear Before Board Every Existence Five Justify Obliged Our Pain Should Years

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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

~George Bernard Shaw

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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

~George Bernard Shaw

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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

~George Bernard Shaw

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Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Bad Creation Daily God Minute Miracle Slogan Would

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What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

~George Bernard Shaw

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My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Across Bullet Every Explosion Getting Like Line Method Play Shooting

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All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Genuinely Humorous Intellectual Work

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If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Alive Because Benefit Big Cannot Clearly Consume Does Keeping Life Little More Much Organization Our Perhaps Producing Purpose Society Then Us Use Very We Cannot You Your Yourself

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I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Am Better Dead Done Feeling Glad Last Make More Myself Perfect Room Shall Somebody Strong Strong Feeling Than I Am

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 26th, 1856

Died: November 2nd, 1950

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