by aQuilo not akilo on December 5th, 2007

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What is your favorite George Bernard Shaw quote?

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by MargaretMcGhee on December 5th, 2007
A famous motion picture star met GBS on shipboard while traveling to America. She monopolized the conversation for the four days on the water. At the final dinner she stated to Shaw,

"Mr. Shaw, what a wonderful thing it would be for us to get married. Think of the children we could have. Why with my beauty and your brains they would conquer the world."

"Yes, Madam," GBS replied, "But what if they had my beauty and YOUR brains?"
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- Definite winner.
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  by LJAllen on December 5th, 2007
- It's a funny story. One version has it that the woman was Isadora Duncan, which makes it even more believable.
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  by Basil_Fawlty on October 7th, 2009
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by Sally-The Redhead on December 5th, 2007
It is well known that Shaw was an atheist. Read your Bible.
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- ...what?
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  by Talimze on December 5th, 2007
- Castro loved shaw, and there were productions every year in Shaw's honor.
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  by Cubaneyes on December 5th, 2007
- Yeah, so what?
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  by Talimze on December 5th, 2007
- I was making the point that people who despise socialist or communist ideas look askance at Mr. Shaw. And, of course, it is the communists, Fidel, who believed that the ends justified the means. Nowadays it seems that aspect of communist philosophy has migrated over to Republican Washington. (well, and some Democrats too)
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  by Cubaneyes on December 6th, 2007
- ....awesome.
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  by Talimze on December 6th, 2007
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by Night tripper on December 5th, 2007
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"
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by Anonymous on December 5th, 2007
Youth is wasted on the young.
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by ChandaDiane - est. 1975 on December 5th, 2007
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
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by Marky Mark on October 5th, 2009
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."

LOL! He sure had a way with words. ;)
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- G.B.S.'s only problem was that he lacked self confidence.
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  by Basil_Fawlty on October 7th, 2009
- Maybe he was just making allowance for people doubting him, as in Rudyard Kipling's poem "If".
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  by Marky Mark on October 7th, 2009
- Could be. Another possibility is that he was spoofing his reputation for egotism.
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  by Basil_Fawlty on October 7th, 2009
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