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The real Brahms is nothing mo...

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Imprisonment, as it exists to...

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Let a short Act of Parliament...

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

When asked which dog wins, he...

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A man ought to be able to be ...

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A vegetarian is not a person ...

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

It is not true that men can b...

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I appeal to the chemists to d...

I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

If more than ten percent of t...

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Security, the chief pretense ...

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Leisure may be defined as fre...

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Bible worship, though at its ...

Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Every drunken skipper trusts ...

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The medieval doctors of divin...

The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Defeatism is the wretchedest ...

Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Those who won't hesitate to v...

Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

You are all fundamentalists w...

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

If the governments devalue th...

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I was taught when I was young...

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

First really like is just a l...

First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....