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George Bernard Shaw

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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.


— George Bernard Shaw


#animal #human #human animal #natural #offspring

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules


— George Bernard Shaw


#inspirational

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak!


— George Bernard Shaw


#humor #nature #oak #nature

the beauty and nobility, the august mission and destiny, of human handwriting.


— George Bernard Shaw


#penmanship #beauty

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?


— George Bernard Shaw


#nobel #forgiveness

Some people see things as they are and say, 'why'? I dream things that never were and say, 'why not'?


— George Bernard Shaw


#future #hope #reality #dreams

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


— George Bernard Shaw


#inspirational

The Serpent: You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?


— George Bernard Shaw


#dreams

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.


— George Bernard Shaw


#authors #business #contracts #publishers #publishing

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.


— George Bernard Shaw


#honor #men






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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