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- By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts,…
- All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is
- I'll do what little I can in writing. Only it will be very little. I'm not capable of it; and if I were, you would…
- It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your…
- I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or the mind for…
- I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of…
- ...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured…
- And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish…
- For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science,…
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- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong