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George Bernard Shaw

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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.


— George Bernard Shaw


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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.


— George Bernard Shaw


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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.


— George Bernard Shaw


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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.


— George Bernard Shaw


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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.


— George Bernard Shaw


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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.


— George Bernard Shaw


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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.


— 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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