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George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1856.
* He was a playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.
* He wrote more than 60 plays, including Pygmalion and Saint Joan.
* He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.
* He was a lifelong socialist and pacifist.
* He was a strong advocate for women's rights.
* He was a witty and insightful commentator on the social and political issues of his time.
* He is considered one of the most important figures in 20th-century theater.
* He died in 1950 at the age of 94.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....

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Humor

George Bernard Shaw

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

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Humor

George Bernard Shaw

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

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Inspirational

George Bernard Shaw

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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Books

George Bernard Shaw

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

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Humor

George Bernard Shaw

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

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Inspirational

George Bernard Shaw

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.