There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? - George Bernard Shaw

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There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

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About George Bernard Shaw

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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Alternative Names: Bernard Shaw G.B. Shaw G. Bernard Shaw
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Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

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

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