You see things as they are and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and I say, "Why not?"

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone by stone, a palace.

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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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.

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the 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 a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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