I am no mere chance pile of flesh and bone: if I were only that, I should fall into corruption and dust before your eyes. I am the embodiment of a th… - George Bernard Shaw

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I am no mere chance pile of flesh and bone: if I were only that, I should fall into corruption and dust before your eyes. I am the embodiment of a thought of God: I am the Word made flesh: that is what holds me together standing before you in the image of God. ... The Word is God. And God is within you. ... In so far as you know the truth you have it from my God, who is your heavenly father and mine. He has many names and his nature is manifold. ... It is by children who are wiser than their fathers, subjects who are wiser than their emperors, beggars and vagrants who are wiser than their priests, that men rise from being beasts of prey to believing in me and being saved. ... By their fruits ye shall know them. Beware how you kill a thought that is new to you. For that thought may be the foundation of the kingdom of God on earth.

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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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Οι άνθρωποι πάντα κατηγορούν τις συνθήκες ζωής τους γι’ αυτό που οι ίδιοι είναι. Δεν πιστεύω στις περιστάσεις και τις συνθήκες. Οι άνθρωποι που πετυχαίνουν σ’ αυτό τον κόσμο είναι αυτοί που προχωρούν, διαλέγουν τις συνθήκες και τις περιστάσεις που θέλουν κι όταν δεν τις βρίσκουν τις δημιουργούν.

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