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.
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Progress   
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England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
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America   
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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
Subject:
Secrets   
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Subject:
Science   
Sarcasm   
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
Subject:
Work   
Human Nature   
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Work: Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Subject:
Humor   
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Subject:
Mistakes   
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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
Subject:
Teaching   
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The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
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Art   
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
Subject:
Fear   
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Subject:
Politics   
Government   
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
Subject:
Mock   
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Subject:
Age   
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it
Subject:
Happiness   
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I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
Subject:
Miscellaneous   
Quotes from Plays   
Work: The Apple Cart (1930)
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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
Subject:
Professionalism   
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
Subject:
Fashion   
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
Subject:
Humor   
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
Subject:
Truth   
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