"If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got,..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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“If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!”
“He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.”
“The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.”
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“THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.”
“People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!”
“Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.”
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“Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.”
“One of the finest beliefs I developed years ago that helped me to enjoy all of my life experience was the idea that there are no bad experiences, that no matter what I go through in life - whether it's a challenging experience or a pleasurable one - every experience provides me something of value if I look for it.”
“It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.”