George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
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If you can't appreciate what you've got, then you had better get what you can appreciate.
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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