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George Bernard Shaw

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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.


— George Bernard Shaw


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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.


— George Bernard Shaw


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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.


— George Bernard Shaw


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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.


— George Bernard Shaw


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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?


— George Bernard Shaw


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Most people do not pray; they only beg.


— George Bernard Shaw


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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.


— 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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