George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge, not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
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