There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.
~ George Bernard Shaw
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George Bernard Shaw
Tastes
Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you—they might have different tastes.
~ George Bernard Shaw
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Unreasonable
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
~ George Bernard Shaw
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Circumstances
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
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Progress and change
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~ George Bernard Shaw
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