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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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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Better never than late.


— George Bernard Shaw


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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.


— George Bernard Shaw


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An index is a great leveller.


— George Bernard Shaw


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I want to be all used up when I die.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Most people do not pray; they only beg.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.


— George Bernard Shaw


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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.


— 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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