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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: perspective
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
    tags: arrogance, ignorance, politicians, politics
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: insult, talkative
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”
    ― Bernard Shaw
    tags: democracy
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: poor, rich, society
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: affection
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    G. Stanley Hall
    “Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely, for play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.”
    ― G. Stanley Hall, Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion
    tags: attributed, verifiable
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: ideas, plays
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
    tags: inspirational
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “As you cannot do what you want,
    Want what you can do”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Our life is made by the death of others.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: da-vinci, death, life
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Learning never exhausts the mind.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: learning
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: procrastination, resistance
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “I love those who can smile in trouble...”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: adversity, attitude, cheerfulness
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    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
    ― Clare Boothe Luce
    tags: elegance, misattributed-to-apple, misattributed-to-da-vinci, misattributed-to-steve-jobs, simplicity, sophistication
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
    36837 likes



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