George Bernard Shaw citations

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Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent.
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Man And Superman, 1903

He who gives money he has not earned is generous with other people's labor.
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Man And Superman, 1903

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
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Man And Superman, 1903

He who can, does. He who can't, teaches.
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Man And Superman, 1903

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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Man And Superman, 1903

A thing nobody believes cannot be proven too often.
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Plays Unpleasant, 1931

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
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Man And Superman, 1903

There are fifty ways of saying Yes, and five hundred of saying No, but only one way of writing them down.
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Plays Unpleasant, 1931

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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Man And Superman, 1903

The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters.
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Man And Superman, 1903

Fanny's First Play, Preface (1911)
1910s

Arms and the Man, Act III (1898)
1890s

Preface
1900s, Major Barbara (1905)

Preface to London music in 1888-89 as heard by Corno di Bassetto http://books.google.com/books?id=3PBP0ln1gLgC (1937)
1940s and later

Letter from G. Bernard Shaw to a friend, “Bernard Shaw's Defence of Mussolini,” (Feb, 7, 1927)
1920s

Praed, Act IV
1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)

Preface
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)

Preface
1910s, Misalliance (1910)

1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)

1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)

Preface
1910s, Misalliance (1910)

Episode I
1910s, Misalliance (1910)

The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

Quote about Italy’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia in Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of Bernard Shaw by Gareth Griffith (1993) p. 267.
1920s

Newsreel interview by George Bernard Shaw entitled “Various Scenes with George Bernard Shaw,” Fox Movietone Newsreel (1931), referring to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency
1910s

#33
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

Act III
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

#26
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

Preface http://books.google.com/books?id=T70Ahd88jSMC&q=%22It+is+difficult+if+not+impossible+for+most+people+to+think+otherwise+than+in+the+fashion+of+their+own+period%22&pg=PA46#v=onepage to Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923)
1920s

As quoted in Days with Bernard Shaw (1949) by Stephen Winsten
1940s and later

letter, 24 June 1930, to Frank Harris "To Frank Harris on Sex in Biography" Sixteen Self Sketches (1949)
1940s and later

Act II
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)

Source: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

#68
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

Interview "What Vegetarianism Really Means: a Talk with Mr Bernard Shaw", in Vegetarian (15 January 1898), reprinted in Shaw: Interviews and Recollections, edited by A. M. Gibbs, 1990, p. 401 https://books.google.it/books?id=45muCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA401
1890s

1900s, Major Barbara (1905)

Acis, in Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

Preface
1900s, Getting Married (1908)

Candida, Act III
1890s