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Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.
Jonathan Swift
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Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.
Eric Hoffer
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We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.
Bertrand Russell
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If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.
Tariq Ramadan
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Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?
Mortimer Adler
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Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil.
Laozi
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Sometimes the shadow stays next to the Light. Sometimes it disappears into the Light
Rumi
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Fasting is the first principle of medicine fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.
Rumi
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If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one.
James Madison
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Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the thinking mind.
Eckhart Tolle
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Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience.
Ibn Taymiyyah
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Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness--to love Him in others' virtues.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.
Lucian
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"Marriages that made out of love (so-called ""love-matches"") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
Daniel Dennett
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To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
Gautama Buddha
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Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.
Vilfredo Pareto
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For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.
Vilfredo Pareto
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Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.
Vilfredo Pareto
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In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.
Vilfredo Pareto
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The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods
Vilfredo Pareto
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Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
Vilfredo Pareto
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If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch of cats, dogs, squirrels, and everything else that is just a small animal and your ark will keep sinking. But if you can find one elephant to get overboard, you're in much better shape.
Vilfredo Pareto
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