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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the…
— Donald Berwick
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The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge,…
— Annie Besant
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad,…
— Annie Besant
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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its…
— Annie Besant
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In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows…
— Annie Besant
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Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest, as that which…
— Annie Besant
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As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is…
— Annie Besant
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Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy…
— Annie Besant
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Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine;…
— Annie Besant
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the…
— Annie Besant
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One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material…
— Annie Besant
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God…
— Annie Besant
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The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother,…
— Annie Besant
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but…
— Annie Besant
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Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all…
— Annie Besant
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There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any…
— Annie Besant
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We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's…
— Annie Besant
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You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of…
— Annie Besant
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Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
— George Best
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The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and…
— Stella Adler
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