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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature;… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
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India is known all over the world are the only three countries India, Bharat, Hindustaan! Who continues to sing the melody of… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
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[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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