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I dunno, when I started writing really I was like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex... occasionally,… — Tom Waits
If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would paint the forms… — Xenophanes
The Jain religion in India teaches that because all life is essentially interrelated and interconnected, all living beings should be considered sacred and be respected.… — Nathaniel Altman
And for a disciple thus freed, in whose heart dwells peace, there is nothing to be added to what has been done, and naught more… — Gautama Buddha
Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms. — Gautama Buddha
But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned… — Gautama Buddha
The real platform for religion is based on the concepts of compassion, respect and consideration, not just for human beings, but for all forms of… — Paul Irwin
Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all… — Plato
There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing… — Muhammad
He took our flesh and our flesh became God, since it is united with God and forms a single entity with him. For the higher… — Gregory of Nazianzus
Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them — Ibn Ata Allah
Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood… — Teresa de Lauretis
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and… — Socrates
Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking… — Timothy Keller
If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it… — Adyashanti
Laughing together heartily at the same thing forms an instant bond. — Liz Curtis Higgs
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has… — Max De Pree
We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world… — Vijay Prashad
If a tablet is not wiped clean of it's figures, nothing can be written upon it. A single heart cannot serve as the place for… — Ibn Ata Allah
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying… — Bertolt Brecht

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