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A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for
you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched.
But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.
-Henry Miller
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It is not worth singing for ourselves; it is nicer
if two people sing together. Then more people: hundreds, thousands, until
the huge Harmony can be heard, in which we can all be just one, indeed.
Then will we be able to say: “May the whole world be happy!"
-Zoltán Kodály
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I firmly believe that there was an ancient language,
the language of the melodies that make us all be understood. The melody
of ancient times must resound in our souls so that we may have a human
life. The ancient melody, the so many times forgotten melody, the melody
of love.
-József Szombatfalvi
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You see, you all start with the premise that democracy
is some good. I don't think it's worth a damn. I think Churchill is right,
the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else
that's any better, and therefore he used to say, "Tyranny tempered
by assassination, but lots of assassination." People say, "If
the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better."
I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as
the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish. You
know the Congress is a perfect example, and created to be a perfect example.
-Dean Acheson
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Hence the soul is nothing intrinsically real, nor
is the body either; each of them exists in time only in and through the
other. The only element of an individual thing that is intrinsically real
is the identity of soul and body.. Furthermore, the soul is not anything
that is intrinsically real, since it exists only through its relative
opposition to the body.
-F.W.J. Schelling
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Inexorable facts connect our consciousness with
this body that we know; and that not merely as a whole, but the parts
of it are connected severally with parts of our brain-action. If there
is any similar connexion with a spiritual body, it only follows that the
spiritual body must die at the same time with the natural one. Consider
a mountain rill. It runs down in the sunshine, and its water evaporates;
yet it is fed by thousands of tiny tributaries, and the stream flows on.
The water may be changed again and again, yet still there is the same
stream. It widens over plains, or is prisoned and fouled by towns; always
the same stream, but at last 'even the weariest river Winds somewhere
safe to sea.' When than happens, no drop of water is lost, but the stream
is dead.
-William Kingdon Clifford
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The anatta theory denies the existence of a self
only when the word "self" is taken to refer to some thing in
addition to the groups of factors making up a person. The conviction that
there is a substantial self is the root-cause of suffering, for this results
in the attitude that underlies and makes possible the attachment of the
various processes to a self. It is ignorance that allows the attachment
and thereby makes possible suffering.
-John M. Koller
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To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists,
manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty,
which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms
this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness.
In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly
religious men.
-Albert Einstein
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Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions
and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without
a body seems to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.
-Albert Einstein
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Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
To the eternal sun, I render back
These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.
… there remains naught save a modicum of senseless dust
Such is the end of man--the only spoil
We carry with us from life's battle-field,
Is but an insight into nothingness,
And utter scorn of all which once appeared
To us exalted and desirable.
-Friedrich von Schiller
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"The indispensable first step to getting the
things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."
-Ben Stein
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"Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed
can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished."
-Orison Swett Marden
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"Each time you are honest and conduct yourself
with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each
time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing
you toward failure."
-Joseph Sugarman
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"The golden opportunity you are seeking is
in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance,
or the help of others; it is in yourself alone."
-Orison Swett Marden
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"The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares,
the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.'
It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."
-Lydia Maria Child
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"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes,
extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life."
-Smiley Blanton
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"The greatest thing a man can do in this world
is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him.
This is success, and there is no other."
-Orison Swett Marden
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"He who has done his best for his own time
has lived for all times."
-Johann von Schiller
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"No legacy is so rich as honesty."
-William Shakespeare
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"They're only truly great who are truly good."
-George Chapman
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Do not think of knocking out another person's brain
because he differs in opinion from you.It would bo as rational to knock
yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
-Horace Mann
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If you have made mistakes,even serious ones,there
is always another chance for you.What we call failure is not the falling
down but the staying down.
-Mary Pickford
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Minds,like bodies,will often fall into a pimpled,
ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
-Charles Dickens
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AH,music.A magic beyond all we do here!
-J.K.Rowling
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You must not lose faith in humanity.Humanity is
an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,the ocean does not become
dirty.
-M.K.Gandhi
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In taking revenge,a man is but even with his enemy;but
in passing it over,he is superior.
-Sir Francis Bacon
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Our modern society is engaged in polishing and
decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
-Swami Nirmalananda
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a
tolerable planet to put it on?
-Henry David Thoreau
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You can bomb the world to pieces but you cannot
bomb the world to peace.
-Michael Franti
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