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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

— George Bernard Shaw

More from George Bernard Shaw

  1. As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
  2. You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
  3. That proves it's not by Shaw, because all Shaw's characters are himself: mere puppets stuck up to spout Shaw.
  4. You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'
  5. The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
  6. Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
  7. Why was I born with such contemporaries?
  8. Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes.

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  • truth
  • belief
  • progress
  • innovation
  • resistance

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