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Did George Bernard Shaw really say it?

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Really: William H. Whyte, 1950

William H. Whyte wrote it in Fortune magazine in 1950. No Shaw source exists.

How to post it: Credit William H. Whyte, Fortune, 1950.

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