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George Bernard Shaw

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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.


— George Bernard Shaw


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General consultant to mankind.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.


— George Bernard Shaw


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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.


— George Bernard Shaw


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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.


— George Bernard Shaw


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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.


— George Bernard Shaw


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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.


— George Bernard Shaw


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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.


— George Bernard Shaw


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About George Bernard Shaw

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Did you know about George Bernard Shaw?

After visiting the USSR in 1931 and meeting Joseph Stalin Shaw became a supporter of the Stalinist USSR. The Apple Cart (1929) was probably his most popular work of this era. Shaw's correspondence with the motion picture producer Gabriel Pascal who was the first to bring Shaw's plays successfully to the screen and who later tried to put into motion a musical adaptation of Pygmalion but died before he could realize it is publiGeorge Bernard Shawd in a book titled Bernard Shaw and Gabriel Pascal.

He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938) for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (adaptation of his play of the same name) respectively. He became an accompliGeorge Bernard Shawd orator in the furtherance of its causes which included gaining equal rights for men and women alleviating abuses of the working class rescinding private ownership of productive land and promoting healthy lifestyles. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.

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