Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

—George Bernard Shaw

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About George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman...

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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

—George Bernard Shaw

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England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

—George Bernard Shaw

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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

—George Bernard Shaw

history learning Hegel

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give the physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Anything was possible. Everything was uncertain. But I knew one thing for sure: I'd bounced back before, and I would do it again and again and again. Because that's the only choice there is. And as many things as I still had to lose, I had just as many more left to find.

—Katherine Center in The Lost Husband

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I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

—John Corey Whaley in Where Things Come Back

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We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

—Ally Condie in Matched

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You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

—Simone Elkeles in Leaving Paradise

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Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

—Jonathan Winters

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