Inspirational quotes
George Bernard Shaw
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
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Men are wise, not in proportion to their experience, but in their capacity for experience.
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. 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. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.
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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
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You see things and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?'
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You see things as they are and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and I say, "Why not?"
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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone by stone, a palace.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable on persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
