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George Bernard Shaw Facts
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George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. He was also an essayist, novelist and short story writer. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Issues which engaged Shaw's attention included education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege. (1856 – 1950) |
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Quotes by 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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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability
George Bernard Shaw
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Most people do not pray; they only beg
George Bernard Shaw
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw
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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw
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The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
George Bernard Shaw
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw /Maxims for Revolutionists/
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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard Shaw
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We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
George Bernard Shaw /Man and Superman/
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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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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.
George Bernard Shaw
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
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