# What Life Is About (according to some translation-bot)

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**Created:** [July 10, 2011, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-life-is-about-according-to-some-translation-bot/588566 "2011-07-10T23:56:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-life-is-about-according-to-some-translation-bot/588566/1 "2011-07-10T23:56:03Z")

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George Bernard Shaw (if you don’t know him, [shame on you](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw)) said:  
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“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” \*

Some [automatic translation engines](http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&safe=off&source=hp&q=%22life+is+about+forcing%22+%22george+bernard+shaw%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=4fd352462ee451d0&biw=1238&bih=691) out there in cyberspace have remade this into a sentiment that I find equally true:

_“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about **forcing** yourself.”_

Or as I put it in this pithy little couplet:

_Want to live fully?  
Be your own bully._