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George Bernard Shaw

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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.


— George Bernard Shaw


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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.


— George Bernard Shaw


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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.


— George Bernard Shaw


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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.


— George Bernard Shaw


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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.


— George Bernard Shaw


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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.


— George Bernard Shaw


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All great truths begin as blasphemies.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.


— George Bernard Shaw


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About George Bernard Shaw

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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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