"If you leave your art, the world..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
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“To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.”
“When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.”
“The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.”
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“No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.”
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“As my object was not myself, I set out with the determination, and happily with the disposition, of not being moved by praise or censure, friendship or calumny, nor of being drawn from my purpose by any personal altercation; and the man who cannot do this, is not fit for a public character.”
“When you focus on serving, there is no fear in you.”
“Children make your life important.”