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All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic
Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Preface (1893)More about this quote: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #GeorgeBernardShaw #censorship #challenge #establishment #heterodoxy #institutions #orthodoxy #progress #statusquo
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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#TIL the curate who wrote the #Hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers" also wrote "The Book of the Were-Wolves"
AND the "training up" of his lower class teenage fiancée into suitable curate marriage material was probably part of the inspiration for #GeorgeBernardShaw 's " #Pygmalion" (they were friends in later life)
AND he taught classes with a pet bat on his shoulder
AND he's the ancestor of comedian #JoshWiddicombe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Baring-Gould
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-were-wolves/
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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It's never too late to be what you might have been.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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HIGGINS: Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things. Cowards, you notice, are always shrieking to have troublesome people killed.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic
Pygmalion, Act 5 (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shaw #georgebernardshaw #pygmalion #henryhiggins #change #creativity #escape #fear #killing #life #makingtrouble #troublemaker #God #humancondition
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
-- George Bernard Shaw⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeBernardShaw #GrowingOld
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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A quotation from George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic
Treatise on Parents and Children, “Children’s Happiness” (1914)More about this quote: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shaw #georgebernardshaw #activity #boredom #busyness #ennui #happiness #introspection #meme #misery #occupation #preoccupation #purpose #work #worry #meme
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
-- George Bernard Shaw⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeBernardShaw #TheFuture #Wisdom
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida
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75 anni dalla morte di #GeorgeBernardShaw e 100 da quando vinse il #Nobel della letteratura. Di lui ho un ricordo apocrifo legato ad un varietà #TV anni 80 intitolato "GB Show" con protagonista #GinoBramieri. E ovviamente lo conosco come aforista secondo solo ad Oscar Wilde. Ma considerando che en passant vinse pure un #Oscar alla miglior sceneggiatura non originale per "Pigmalione", questo è un #film tratto dallo stesso testo: My Fair Lady - https://streaming-community.io/titles/2921-guarda-my-fair-lady/watching.html
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‘Foundation’ Star Synnove Karlsen to Make New York Stage Debut in Off-Broadway ‘Pygmalion’ (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #Global #News #GeorgeBernardShaw #MyFairLady #Pygmalion #SynnoveKarlsenhttps://variety.com/2025/theater/news/foundation-synnove-karlsen-pygmalion-1236555373/
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
-- George Bernard Shaw⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeBernardShaw #Communication
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida
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A quotation from George Bernard Shaw
FANNY: I don’t mind this play shocking my father morally. It’s good for him to be shocked morally. It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic
Fanny’s First Play, “Induction” (1911)More info about this quote: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…
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FANNY: I don’t mind this play shocking my father morally. It’s good for him to be shocked morally. It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic
Fanny’s First Play, “Induction” (1911)More info about this quote: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shaw #georgebernardshaw #age #change #currency #maturity #modernity #morality #shocking #statusquo #updating #upsetting #youth #oldage #elderly
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-- George Bernard Shaw⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeBernardShaw #Life #Mistakes
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico
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Craig Hockenberry’s Take on the Why of Lquid Glass
There is a quote largely attributed to Robert F. Kennedy. No not the one rampaging through the U.S. healthcare system. It goes “some men see things as they are and ask why. I dream things that never were, and ask why not?” But, it actually came first from George Bernard Shaw in his play Back to Methuselah.
The text gets mangled often enough as does the attribution. Regardless, the point is made. In my experience as a theatre producer/director/designer/playwright the biggest part of the game is the “dreaming” part. The next hurdle is finding a way to turn that into reality. The dreams often come when least expected, occasionally after many attempts at finding a solution, and sometimes at random moments. They sometimes come into focus as almost impossible, or perhaps wrong-headed.
Typically, in something completely uncharacteristic for me, when I find I can’t articulate what I’m feeling or seeing, I know I’m on to something, and that’s the moment to ask “why not?” rather than “why?”
I’m also very familiar with the desire or temptation to do something new instead of doing again what I know works. Speaking from my experience that’s yielded both positive and negative results. There’s a reason some things are called “tried and true.” There’s also a reason to hold your breath, roll the dice and gamble it all on something new.
Honestly, either way is a risk. And that’s how it should be. But if you feel the need for change, go for it and don’t reverse course.
But what do I know? I’m just a theatre guy who’s produced hits and flops along the way and comfortable taking slings and arrows along with occasional accolades. I’m not sure what feels better, being admired for a courageous leap of faith, or feeling accomplished for sticking the landing. In the end, I’m not sure it matters.
Liquid Glass
A lot has already been said, good, bad, or indifferent about how Apple’s designers dreamed up its new Liquid Glass design approach. But that doesn’t answer the “why?” Was it a compulsion for something new? Time for a change? A diversion to distract? Or a romantic new vision spurred on by a heavy new headset?
App developer and designer Craig Hockenberry of the iconfactory, in an interesting post recently asked that question and provided what he thinks is a possible answer. It’s titled simply Liquid Glass. Why? I don’t want to spoil the post. You should go read it yourself. But his answer points to a possible future of devices “with screens that disappear seamlessly into the physical edge.”
A cautionary note here. For several years Apple trumpeted “edge-to-edge screens” that still had bezels. Marketing mavens often outrace product dreamers to the destination.
I joked with Craig on Mastodon that he should have subtitled the piece Liquid Glass is an Edge Case.
The joke may indeed prove to be true, but it’s a truth we’ll live with in some form or fashion for the next few years, edge case or not, regardless of the good, bad, or indifferent reactions.
Anyway, go read Craig’s piece. However Liquid Glass is received in a few weeks, I’m looking forward to discovering it myself. I mean, why not?
You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.
#Apple #cats #GeorgeBernardShaw #iOS #iOS26 #iPadOS26 #iPhone #LiquidGlass #macOS26 #Tech #technology
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A quotation from George Bernard Shaw
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British playwright and critic
(Attributed)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgebernardshaw #adult #children #gettingold #growingold #maturity #youth
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
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It's never too late to be what you might have been.
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Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows
#meme #AleisterCrowley #GeorgeBernardShaw #TheGirlsAreFighting
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-- George Bernard Shaw⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeBernardShaw #Life #Mistakes
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida
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#bookstodon #neurodiverse #GeorgeBernardShaw
Just finished reading #Pygmalion and am wondering who finds Henry Higgins to be some variation of neurospicy. It explains a lot of his behavior, I think, though Shaw himself (in intro and afterword) writes off his behaviour in other ways. Higgins is also a confirmed bachelor and not gay. He'd fall in the ace/aro category of written now.
Thoughts?
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
-- George Bernard Shaw