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<nowiki>[</nowiki>Isadora Duncan<nowiki>]</nowiki> wrote to George Bernard Shaw: "Will you be the father of my next child? A combination of my beauty… - George Bernard Shaw
" "<nowiki>[</nowiki>Isadora Duncan<nowiki>]</nowiki> wrote to George Bernard Shaw: "Will you be the father of my next child? A combination of my beauty and your brains would startle the world," but he replied: "I must decline your offer with thanks, for the child might have my beauty and your brains."
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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist with a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory. He wrote more than sixty plays, including such works as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.
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الخيل و الآدميون سواء في أنهم نادرا ما يعترضون على أن يُقادوا و أن يُوجهوا: بل هم في العادة لا يحسون بغير السعادة لإعفائهم من مهمة التفكير و تدبير أمورهم. أما الأشخاص الذين لا يقبلون التحكم و السيطرة، فهم الشواذ وليسوا هم القاعدة. وعندما يساء استخدام السلطة، ويصبح الخضوع للسلطة اذلالاَ، فسيرفض الناس السلطة و يأبون الخضوع لها، ويصبح كل شيء محتمل الوقوع ابتداء من العصيان البسيط الى الثورة الجارفة...
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