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No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man.....it is simply… — Thomas Huxley
Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our society… — John Polkinghorne
Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's… — Thomas Aquinas
The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring - and you go on desiring.… — Rajneesh
The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his… — Murray Rothbard
Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there is no mind… — Rajneesh
The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that… — Rajneesh
How does one earn innocence? - by learning from frustration, by going deep into frustrations and realizing the fact that each frustration is an outcome… — Rajneesh
If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And I'm not a student of religion, but I don't find anything in what the principal teachings of Islam that put us in contradiction at… — George H. W. Bush
The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all… — Eric Jensen
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those… — Elie Wiesel
Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects are but signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of greater help than… — Edgar Cayce
The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics… — Carl Jung
A person who lives moment to moment, who goes on dying to the past, is never attached to anything. Attachment comes from the accumulated past.… — Rajneesh
Just seeing the fact that this is an attachment, that attachment is a bondage - a beautiful word for bondage - that attachment is not… — Rajneesh
Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that… — Alec Baldwin
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with… — C.S. Lewis
Harry Potter has been a fantastic experience and the fact it has made stars of us all is unbelievable at times - it really is… — Rupert Grint
Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living. — Nilakanta Sri Ram
All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing,… — Clement of Alexandria
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of… — Adolphe Quetelet
The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers,… — Unknown Author
This constitution we designate by the word genotype. The word is entirely independent of any hypothesis; it is fact, not hypothesis that different zygotes arising… — Wilhelm Johannsen
I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate… — Rose George

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