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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 Mrs. Warren's Profession
Tags: overcoming-obstacles, motivational

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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
— George Bernard Shaw
Tags: critics-and-criticism
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
— George Bernard Shaw
Tags: experience, man, history, learning
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
Tags: creating, about, finding, yourself, life, inspirational
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
— George Bernard Shaw
Tags: responsibility, future, wise, wisdom
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
— George Bernard Shaw
Tags: rich, matter, poverty, society, time
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